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...Louis B. Wright Copyright © 1943 by Duke University Press 1943 HUMANISTIC EDUCATION AND THE DEMOCRATIC STATE LOUIS B. WRIGHT IN THE PRESENT crisis, school administrators throughout the United States are desperately sometimes hysterically trying to adapt education to the needs of a nation...

...Harold Orel Copyright © 1982 by Duke University Press 1982 Rudyard Kipling and the Establishment: A Humanistic Dilemma Harold Orel Rudyard Kipling s history as a writer illustrates one of the most serious problems in modern criticism, the relationship between members of the Establishment...

...William David Hart This essay explores an emergent black atheist, secular humanist, and naturalistic imagination. Based on a 2007 survey by the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life that measured the percentage of African Americans holding such views, I refer to this group as “one percenters...

...Moses Hadas Copyright © 1944 by Duke University Press 1944 GEORGE BUCHANAN, SCOTTISH HUMANIST MOSES HADAS FOR AN AIR JOURNEY to a bookless region, where these lines are being written, I was constrained to choose for the ounces and inches that could be devoted to belles lettres a book...

...Harold T. Parker Education of a Humanist . By Guerard Albert . Cambridge : Harvard University Press , 1949 . Pp. x , 302 . $5.00. . Copyright © 1950 by Duke University Press 1950 246 The South Atlantic Quarterly No one perhaps will be better able to write in the near future...

...John A. Yunck Copyright © 1963 by Duke University Press 1963 The Natural History of a Dead Quarrel: Hemingway and the Humanists John A. Yunck Ernest Hemingway s violent death is now some time past, and the vulturi litterarum the suave, sensational necrologers, the illustrated news morgue-men...

...Velma Bourgeois Richmond Copyright © 1978 by Duke University Press 1978 The Humanist Rejection of Romance Velma Bourgeois Richmond Tensions between the intellectual or academic establishment and the popular audience are a commonplace of the history of art, music, and literature. Indeed...

...Russell A. Fraser Copyright © 1967 by Duke University Press 1967 Sidney The Humanist Russell A. Fraser It is conventional, I think, to identify humanism with a cultivating of the classics. Partly, the identification is sponsored by those who seek to discriminate between the scientific...

...Donald Watt Copyright © 1982 by Duke University Press 1982 The Uncornered Humanist: E. M. Forster in the Pink Decade Donald Watt During the mid-1930 s E. M. Forster and Winston Churchill saw eye to eye on the state of England and world affairs. In his 1936 essay on Matthew Arnold...

...John E. Jordan The Making of a Tory Humanist: William Wordsworth and the Idea of Community . By Friedman Michael H. . New York : Columbia University Press , 1979 . Pp. xi , 322 . $20.00 . Copyright © 1980 by Duke University Press 1980 Book Reviews 451 harvest of citations...

... notions of humanistic research and reformat the archive in critical ways by shifting it from a static repository to an active site for the co-creation of feminist knowledge. Rereading the archive as a site of encuentro (encounter) and exchange, the essay explores how contemporary feminist scholars can...

...Kieran Aarons This article traces a logical and political thread leading from the theory of revolt in Furio Jesi's 1969 Spartakus to his later work on festivity and the “mythological machine model.” It opens by arguing that the humanist model that frames Jesi's early efforts to disarm the allure...

...Ramzi Fawaz This piece introduces the special issue of SAQ “Psychedelic Imaginaries,” which collates fresh and theoretically sophisticated humanist perspectives on the contemporary psychedelic renaissance. Recent interdisciplinary research into psychoactive substances like LSD (or “acid...

... research has deeply changed our interest in the age of humanism and the Renaissance. Once humanism is no longer regarded as a movement merely of reform in scholarship and education, new aspects of humanistic thought come to the fore. Moreover, if high-light is focused on the economic and political factors...

..., monopolizes his attention to the all but complete exclusion of anything positive. He is determined to prove that the evolution of the modern world owed little, if anything, to the New Learning in general and to the humanists in particular. That is his main conclusion, and it apparently 128 The South Atlantic...

... or Talcott Parsons and Samuel Stouffer at Harvard) between those who seek to emulate a quantita­ tive, positivistic, deterministic approach to social reality and those who seek to follow a more humanistic, open-ended, qualitative, existential, historical, interpretive perspective. Persons in the human­...

..., good and bad. The good kind is used in good causes; the bad kind in bad. Our kind is the good kind; the bad kind is used by our opponents. This was Plato s solution, and Isocrates , and it has been enthusiastically embraced by humanists ever since. This permanent postponement of the problem works well...

... of these is the humanist myth. This piece of fiction was chiefly the creation of the Italian humanist and poet, Petrarch, who spread the idea that civilization had been dead for nine centuries indeed, until he brought it to life in its old Roman form. Petrarch disliked the feudal literature, the scholastic learning...

... (not merely review and certainly not rehash) the classics. It was the job of the humanist of each age to present a new Dante, a new Goethe, and thereby the humanities like the sciences were additive. In giving us an intelli­ gent critique of the work of two great academic humanists of this century, Geoffrey...

..., searching, groping, seeking, hoping tendencies which the humanistic revolution had set in motion. The historical Dr. Johann or Georg Faust of the be­ ginning of the sixteenth century, to be sure, was not the carrier of humanistic ideals. He was a windbag and a charlatan, a wandering scholar who eked out...