LEADER 03140oam 22005174a 450 001 9910524687703321 005 20230621140813.0 010 $a0-8018-1415-4 010 $a1-4214-3049-5 035 $a(CKB)4100000010460781 035 $a(OCoLC)1117489378 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse77210 035 $a(oapen)https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/88853 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC29138984 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL29138984 035 $a(oapen)doab88853 035 $a(OCoLC)1526862699 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000010460781 100 $a20720921d1972 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|||||||nn|n 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aToward Freedom and Dignity$eThe Humanities and the Idea of Humanity /$f[by] O.B. Hardison, Jr 205 $a1st ed. 210 $cJohns Hopkins University Press$d2019 210 1$aBaltimore,$cJohns Hopkins Press$d[1972] 210 4$dİ[1972] 215 $a1 online resource (xxvi, 163 p.) 300 $a"Originally delivered as a group of lectures at the annual Humanities Forum sponsored by Elon College in North Carolina." 311 08$a1-4214-3089-4 311 08$a1-4214-3048-7 327 $aCover -- Copyright -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1. No Possum, No Sop, No Taters -- or, a Lack of Cash and a Failure of Nerve -- 2. Through the College Catalogue with Spade and Camera -- 3. The Orator and the Poet: The Dilemma of Renaissance Humanism -- 4. Summerhill-and After -- 5. An Old Age Is Out: Industrial Society and the Future of Humanism -- 6. Demanding the Impossible -- Index. 330 $aOriginally published in 1973. Toward Freedom and Dignity is a humanist's view of the humanities in an age of burgeoning technology. O. B. Hardison Jr. deals with the status of the humanities and their future?how they are regarded and how they may come to contribute to a genuinely humane society. He argues that humanistic studies are not a luxury in either education or society. They are central to the preparation of human beings for the kind of society that is possible if we manage to avoid an Orwellian technocracy. Social goals and priorities must be set in terms of the ideal of a culture truly adjusted to human needs and human limitations. In framing his argument, Hardison draws on ideas of the humanities since the Renaissance, especially on the philosophical humanities that emerged in Europe in the works of authors like Kant, Schiller, and Coleridge. He is untroubled by anti-humanistic trends in college curricula and the surrounding culture, and he contends that we have only one practical option: to ensure that culture evolves toward a more humane society, toward freedom and dignity. 606 $aEducation, Humanistic 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aEducation, Humanistic. 676 $a370.11/2 700 $aHardison$b O. B.$cJr.$g(Osborne Bennett),$f1928-1990.$0201898 801 0$bMdBmJHUP 801 1$bMdBmJHUP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910524687703321 996 $aToward freedom and dignity$9781466 997 $aUNINA