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Re-Calling the Humanities

Language, Education, and Humans Being

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  • © 2013

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  1. Russell H. Hvolbek
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  • In a world dominated by the values of capitalism and science this book explains the salient fact and truth for humans being in the world: conscious experience and understanding of life itself

Part of the book series: Educational Futures (EDUFUT)

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-viii
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    1. Re-Calling the Humanities

      • Russell H. Hvolbek
      Pages 1-5

  3. Grounding the Humanities

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 7-7
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    2. Language, Humans, and the Humanities

      • Russell H. Hvolbek
      Pages 9-25

    3. The Language Medium

      • Russell H. Hvolbek
      Pages 27-40

    4. Language, History, and Humans Being

      • Russell H. Hvolbek
      Pages 41-53

  4. An Intellectual Interlude

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 55-55
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    2. An Intellectual Interlude

      • Russell H. Hvolbek
      Pages 57-72

  5. Issues in The Humanities

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      Pages 73-73
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    2. Confusion, the Socratic Truth

      • Russell H. Hvolbek
      Pages 75-87

    3. The Crowd and its Freedoms

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      Pages 89-106

    4. The God Word

      • Russell H. Hvolbek
      Pages 107-119

  6. Back Matter

    Pages 121-122
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About this book

The author has two goals: 1) to reintroduce humanity to the humanities, and 2) to present a foundation constructed in the reality of the natural languages upon which the studies of human thought and behavior can be successfully understood and explained. In the first section of the book the effects of language upon human behavior are illustrated. It is argued that as water is to fish, language is to humans: the medium in which they live, think, and discover reality. The idea that humans are not simply biological animals, but thought evolving in language—humans are the conversations they construct in language—is amplified. The second section of the book discusses what this means for the subjects we call the humanities. Grounded within the hermeneutic theories of Hans Georg Gadamer, the book is addressed to all the students, the teachers, and the teachers of the teachers of literature, poetry, history, and philosophy; in short, to the humanities and those who desire to comprehend and explain what we humans—beyond pure biology—understand and have made of ourselves.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Re-Calling the Humanities

  • Book Subtitle: Language, Education, and Humans Being

  • Authors: Russell H. Hvolbek

  • Series Title: Educational Futures

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6209-314-0

  • Publisher: SensePublishers Rotterdam

  • eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Education (R0)

  • Copyright Information: SensePublishers 2013

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-6209-314-0Published: 18 September 2013

  • Series ISSN: 2214-9864

  • Series E-ISSN: 2214-9872

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: VIII, 317

  • Topics: Education, general

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