Humanities

The humanities are academic disciplines that study the human condition, using methods that are primarily analytical, critical, or speculative, as distinguished from the mainly empirical approaches of the natural sciences.
The humanities include ancient and modern languages, literature, law, history, philosophy, religion, and visual and performing arts such as music and theatre. The humanities that are also regarded as social sciences include technology, anthropology, area studies, communication studies, cultural studies, and linguistics. Scholars working in the humanities are sometimes describe
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Why I Am Not a Feminist: A Feminist Manifesto
The Queen of Katwe: A Story of Life, Chess, and One Extraordinary Girl's Dream of Becoming a Grandmaster
East West Street: On the Origins of "Genocide" and "Crimes Against Humanity"
It's Even Worse Than It Looks: How the American Constitutional System Collided With the Politics of Extremism
A History of the World
The Loudest Voice in the Room: How Roger Ailes and Fox News Remade American Politics
Learning to Die in the Anthropocene: Reflections on the End of a Civilization
Words Without Music: A Memoir
Indonesia, Etc: Exploring the Improbable Nation
"The President Has Been Shot!": The Assassination of John F. Kennedy
La utilidad de lo inútil: Manifiesto
Heretics and Heroes: How Renaissance Artists and Reformation Priests Created Our World
The Island of Knowledge: The Limits of Science and the Search for Meaning
The Holy or the Broken: Leonard Cohen, Jeff Buckley, and the Unlikely Ascent of "Hallelujah"
A History of Opera
Hamlet
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
Chasing Lincoln's Killer
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
The Prince
The Art of War
The Odyssey
The Republic
To Kill a Mockingbird
The Communist Manifesto
The Aeneid
The Outsiders
Mythologies
Beowulf
Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking
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Economic Theology
12 books — 1 voter
The Abhorrence Of Love by Britt-Mari NäsströmAspects of the Cult of Cybele and Attis on the Monuments from... by Aleksandra NikoloskaAttis, Between Myth And History by Maria Grazia LancellottiAttis by Hugo HepdingCybele, Attis and Related Cults by Eugene N. Lane
Books on the Myth of Attis
9 books — 1 voter

The Republic by PlatoBeing and Time by Martin HeideggerAgainst the Flow by Peter AbbsThe Odyssey by HomerConfessions by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Best books for humanities degree
256 books — 95 voters
A is for Arbol by Julio R. Lopez JrWheelock's Latin by Frederic M. WheelockChomsky For Beginners by David CogswellText Structure by Nelly TinchevaThe Mother Tongue by Bill Bryson
Linguistics
8 books — 5 voters

Body Talk by Jane M. UssherDemography is Politics by Joanne RodriguesThe Divided Self by R.D. LaingEscape from Freedom by Erich FrommSociology of Religion by Walter A. Jensen
Best Sociology Books
69 books — 21 voters


Erwin Panofsky
“ But what is the use of the humanities as such? Admittedly they are not practical, and admittedly they concern themselves with the past. Why, it may be asked, should we engage in impractical investigations, and why should we be interested in the past? The answer to the first question is: because we are interested in reality. Both the humanities and the natural sciences, as well as mathematics and philosophy, have the impractical outlook of what the ancients called vita contemplativa as opposed to ...more ”
― Erwin Panofsky, Meaning in the Visual Arts

“ There is a Revolution, it’s a human and technological revolution ”
― Natasha Tsakos

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Humanities '76 This is our class group where we will share reviews of books we have read during this grade 8 ye…more

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P5 PHS Humanities This group is for Prospect High School seniors taking Humanities.

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