The Humanities and the Understanding of Reality - Paperback

by Thomas B. Stroup (Editor)

In their concern with the perennial controversy between the two great areas in which men seek knowledge, three eminent literary scholars and a distinguished journalist in these essays address themselves to the question, ""Do the humanities provide a form of understanding of reality that the sciences do not?"" Monroe C. Beardsley maintains that the humanities considered as contributors to knowledge must deal with the same subject matter as the sciences, but literature and the arts can enlarge our

Author Biography

Thomas B. Stroup is professor of English at the University of Kentucky.