Writing The History Of The Humanities

Download or read book Reading, Writing, and the Humanities written by Jo Ray McCuen and published by Heinle & Heinle Publishers. This book was released on 1991 with total page 834 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reading, Writing, and the Humanities is organized around eight classic, enduring thems and features extensive reading and writing for students. In selecting philosophy, history, and literature as the primary categories for grouping the readings, this text reatined this early meaning of humanitries as consisting of subjects whose emphasis is mainly human-centered. Our chapter titles are variations on some profound and timeless questions that writers and thinkers in the humanities have grappled with for centuries, while the subtitles declare the underlying issue that is the featured theme. Reading, Writing and the Humanities will stir awake the analytical and critical minds of students.