Dædalus Winter 2009 Issue Published: Reflecting on the Humanities

TUESDAY, January 30, 2009

The American Academy’s quarterly journal, Dædalus, has released its Winter 2009 issue, Reflecting on the Humanities. The issue coincides with publication by the American Academy of the Humanities Indicators, the first comprehensive data set about the humanities in America.

The issue includes the following essays:

Patricia Meyer Spacks & Leslie Berlowitz: Reflecting on the humanities
Don Michael Randel: The public good: Knowledge as the foundation for a democratic society
Richard J. Franke: The power of the humanities
Edward L. Ayers: Where the humanities live
Francis Oakley: The humanities in liberal arts colleges
Gerald Early: The humanities & social change
Michael Wood: A world without literature?
Caroline W. Bynum: History now
Anthony Grafton: Apocalypse in the stacks? The research library in the age of Google
James J. O’Donnell: The digital humanities
Kay Kaufman Shelemay: Performing the humanities
Kathleen Woodward: The future of the humanities – in the present & in public
Harriet Zuckerman & Ronald G. Ehrenberg : Recent trends in funding for the humanities

The issue also included a poem by Rosanna Warren, “The Twelfth Day.”

Dædalus was founded in 1955 as the Journal of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and established as a quarterly in 1958. It draws on the intellectual capacity of the American Academy, whose Fellows are among the nation’s most prominent thinkers in the arts, sciences, and the humanities, as well as the full range of professions and public life.

The MIT Press publishes Dædalus for the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. To subscribe, order an issue, or learn more about the journal, please visit http://mitpress.mit.edu/daedalus.

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