Public value of the humanities (Record no. 54443)

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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9781849660624
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Classification number 001.3072041
Item number PUB
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Title Public value of the humanities
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Place of publication, distribution, etc. London
Name of publisher, distributor, etc. Bloomsbury
Date of publication, distribution, etc. 2011
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent 319p.
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General note Recession is a time for asking fundamental questions about value. At a time when governments are being forced to make swinging savings in public expenditure, why should they continue to invest public money funding research into ancient Greek tragedy, literary value, philosophical conundrums or the aesthetics of design? Does such research deliver "value for money" and "public benefit"? Such questions have become especially pertinent in the UK in recent years, in the context of the drive by government to instrumentalize research across the disciplines and the prominence of discussions about "economic impact" and "knowledge transfer".<br/><br/>In this book a group of distinguished humanities researchers, all working in Britain, but publishing research of international importance, reflect on the public value of their discipline, using particular research projects as case-studies. Their essays are passionate, sometimes polemical, often witty and consistently thought-provoking, covering a range of humanities disciplines from theology to architecture and from media studies to anthropology.<br/> <br/>
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Topical term or geographic name as entry element Humanities
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Topical term or geographic name as entry element Social Values
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Personal name Bate, Jonathan,Ed.
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