The Development of Federal Assistance to the Humanities

Wallace B. Edgerton

The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 1971, vol. 396, issue 1, 1-12

Abstract: The American propensity to respond to challenge as such, especially since technological prowess and dominance have become our postwar way of life, carries inherent danger. The first sponsors of a governmental agency in support of the humanities recognized that humane knowledge is useful knowl edge, more than ever in an era when purpose becomes confused with efficiency and productivity. The Endowment for the Humanities works from such a premise, supporting efforts to generate humanistic knowledge relevant to current concerns and changing values, and to disseminate the fruits of humanis tic study as widely as possible. It has developed programs promoting and assisting curriculum and faculty development, and supporting humanist teachers and researchers at each stage of their careers. Equally important, the Endowment is increas ingly involved in the transmission of humane knowledge and the stimulation of new thinking on the qualities and values needed to deal with inevitable change. And it is seeking to engage the widest possible audience. A mutually reinforcing advance in both the sciences and the humanities is the society's greatest need as well as its greatest challenge.

Date: 1971
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/000271627139600102 (text/html)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:sae:anname:v:396:y:1971:i:1:p:1-12

DOI: 10.1177/000271627139600102

Access Statistics for this article

More articles in The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science
Bibliographic data for series maintained by SAGE Publications ().