Practicing the Humanities: Amanda Anderson at TEDxBrownUniversity
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- Опубликовано: 23 май 2024
- In this smart and engaging talk, Amanda Anderson makes a powerful case for the distinctive value of the humanities.
About Amanda Anderson:
Professor Amanda Anderson is a literary scholar and theorist who has written on nineteenth-century literature and culture, as well as on contemporary debates in the humanities. She is the director of an interdisciplinary summer institute, The School of Criticism and Theory, which is currently hosted by Cornell University, and Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Humanities and English at Brown University. See her full bio and learn more about this event at the TEDxBrownUniversity website (brown.edu/tedx/).
About TEDx:
In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience. At a TEDx event, TEDTalks video and live speakers combine to spark deep discussion and connection in a small group. These local, self-organized events are branded TEDx, where x = independently organized TED event. The TED Conference provides general guidance for the TEDx program, but individual TEDx events are self-organized.* (*Subject to certain rules and regulations)
I really enjoyed listening to this talk especially in the midst of debates in my country (Uganda) about the value of the humanities. Amanda Anderson provides such clarity on this topic. Most appreciated!!
The humanities should be reflected upon in 2022
I'm majoring in cultural studies, I don't know about the employment but I know I couldn't be happier
Im recently working in a museum😃
Same , about to enrol in a similar course
Brilliant talk! Really enjoyed it!
I think Humanities isn't for everyone, but mainly for people who enjoy self-reflection, philosophy, and all arts in general as a form of individual or collective expression. I think she made some very sensible points on what Humanities is there for though too. To be honest its very common for people not to get into stuff like this until they are elderly and finally reflecting on life itself on a more abstract level. Right now everybody is in a rush to go to work...
Complex Logic Or, they have encountered a certain degree of suffering (or some kind of setback) where societal norms were questioned? For me...PRISON...now a community influencer...
I mean, it makes sense. In the past the humanities were fields that mostly rich people did. I think the problem is with who goes to university and why. If in the past only rich people studied at a higher level, nowadays everyone wants to go to university and that's why now it is seen more as work training. Most of the students who go to university do not have the luxury to do this just because they want to reflect on things because of financial reasons. Their social status means that in the past they would have started working immediately after high school or maybe even before that. I don't think entering the work field when you are around 23-24 years old demonstrates any "rush". This idea that one's parents should support you financially until adulthood is absurd, especially if you're from a poor or middle class background. At 23-24 years old are parents were married, usually with 1-2 kids already and had been working for 4-5 years already.
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I actually disagree and I think you make the exact point that she argues and caution against.
Transcript correction: At 5:39 the word should be "unhampered" (not "on hampered").
I somewhat understand and don’t understand what she’s saying. I feel as if she’s telling me that humanities helps us to see or understand “ how do we know what’s wrong or right?” Can someone correct me if I’m wrong.
Rampart narcissism, lack of respect for real human progress, mass corruption in the western world, rigging society through classism, and ultimately a general lack of concern for the welfare of all others is the reason humanities fall in societal value. Ironically, the lack of the humanities will be the death of humanity.
The cost of a humanities degree should reflect it's general return on investment. Why should a engineer degree cost the same as a philosophy degree when engineers earn more money?
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Had to watch this smut for a culture class. Do people from academia not realize that people can pursue the humanities in their free time without having to take a class? Most humanities classes I've taken don't even teach appreciation of literature or history. If anything, 12 years of being in public schools tried to kill my love of reading.
Looks like they succeeded. You don't even know what "smut" means.
I, too, am involuntarily watching this. **high five from 2019**
If these humanities are important for democracy, why are they in college (which only some people go to)? Shouldn't they all be done in the school that everyone gets? After all, we don't require a college class before people can vote. But we do require people to go to school. And we require people to be 18 to vote. So, school should cover all the people voting. College does not.
+Azendale The masses are more easily swayed into what the tells them without critical thinking and philosophical teachings. I know that sounds all very "Alex Jones" but it is a fact. I think it's disgusting that in our modern times the governing state decides that religious studies take prevalence over humanities lessons in high schools.
voting is a mistake
A little known secret: you do get some humanities before college. These are little known high school classes such as English, psychology, French, Spanish, Latin, history, philosophy of religion, logic (the list goes on). Humanities are available and required as part of a high school education.
A good argument can be made for learning the humanities at home, which I'm doing. The Great Books of the Western World series is a good place to start for those who are self starters, patient readers, and curious about the history of ideas. It is unfortunate that the culture has dumbed us down so much that we do not have the patience and curiosity. We might not even see the value of such works. The reason why something is a classic is because the ideas within have survived the obsolescence of time and we still consider it important today. Enough people should be exposed to the humanities so that we do not think purely materialistically and feel like cogs in the machine and empty robots inside. How rare is it today for someone to learn for its own sake? You do it for the benefit of yourself and whoever you share the ideas with. It is not something that has some extrinsic reward like some greedy fake friend who always asks for something in return for favors. Perhaps the humanities are more inclined to introverts, but I digress.
Humanities is important, but don't waste a college degree on it. Just read a book on it.
Big mistake. Humanities is extremely important today as yesterday. It may seem all theoretical and a waste of time but I did a dual major on Math and Chem. I specialized in the Humanities part.
So while I worked as a chemist for 20 years in the local power plant and 16 in other areas, it was my Humanities preparation in Logic, English composition and Rhetoric that saved me.
Most Engineers were specialists who couldn't write or explain anything UNDERSTANDABLY. I had to compile procedures,"actualize" them and write new ones.
Guess what ? In the entire managerial structure,not one of the technical specialists could solve basic chemical or physics problems without a textbook. Then they got it wrong.
Further, after upgrading the system from electromechanical to digital,...who wrote the applicable protocols?🤔Who prepared a comparison/contrast report to top managenent concerning procedures?...etc....all from Humanities.
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