Tag: Humanities

  • Nation & World

    Harvey Mansfield on politics, the humanities, and science

    Harvey Mansfield wants to reintroduce the concept of thumos into political science. As employed by Plato and Aristotle, thumos refers to the “part of the soul that makes us want to insist on our own importance.” Mansfield believes that modern political science has excluded thumos, and as a result has narrowed its understanding of what…

    5 minutes
  • Nation & World

    From the borderline

    Under a big tent set for lunch in breezy Radcliffe Yard on Friday (June 8), Nobel Prize-winning novelist Toni Morrison offered a gathering of 950 graduates, fellows, and friends a brief meditation on the oblique efficacy of the humanities. She said these “creative, imaginative arts” counsel, goad, and interrogate American culture from its own borders.

    4 minutes
    Toni Morrison.
  • Nation & World

    This month in Harvard history

    May 1976 — Before an overflow crowd in Sanders Theatre, Senior Professor John H. Finley Jr. — the legendary 72-year-old Eliot Professor of Greek Literature Emeritus — gives his final Harvard lecture in “Humanities 103: The Great Age of Athens.”

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  • Nation & World

    In brief

    Concert to honor music faculty A farewell concert featuring the music of Harvard Department of Music faculty Julian Anderson and Joshua Fineberg will be held May 21 at 8 p.m. in John Knowles Paine Concert Hall. Anderson, the Fanny P. Mason Professor of Music, and Fineberg, the John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Humanities,…

    4 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Harvey Mansfield named 2007 Jefferson Lecturer in the Humanities

    Political scientist Harvey Mansfield, the William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of Government at Harvard, will travel to Washington, D.C., in May to deliver the 2007 Jefferson Lecture in the Humanities, sponsored by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH).

    3 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Rothenberg praises value of humanities

    James Rothenberg is a leading figure in the investment world as well as being Harvard University’s treasurer and a member of the Harvard Corporation and Board of Overseers.

    3 minutes