Arts of Living: Reinventing the Humanities for the Twenty-first Century

Contents

v Contents Acknowledgments vii Part I 1 Taking the Humanities Out of the Box 3 2 Democracy Sets in the West: From Able Citizens to Ignorant Masses 27 3 The Great Divide: The Professions Against Civil Society 49 4 The Trouble with English: The Rise of the Professional Humanities and Their Abandonment of Civil Society 73 5 The Poverty of Progress: James Agee, Lionel Trilling, and the Alienation of Knowledge 99 Part II 6 The Wages of Theory: Isolation and Knowledge in the Humanities 121 7 World without End: Criticism or Creation in the Humanities? 145 8 Specialists with Spirit: The Humanities—Outside the University 175 9 “Art Serves Love”: The Arts As a Paradigm for the Humanities 199 10 Travels to the Heart of the Forest: Dilettantes and Professionals in the Twentieth Century 221 Postscript: Could Teaching, of All Things, Prove to Be Our Salvation? 241 Notes 249 Index 297 ...