“Working for Your Bread: The Value of the Humanities” Lecture by Arnold Weinstein
“Working for Your Bread: The Value of the Humanities” Lecture by Arnold Weinstein
Speaker Arnold Weinstein, Edna and Richard Salomon Distinguished Professor of Comparative Literature, argues that the phrase โ the connection between effort and reward โ defines the very nature of humanistic knowing, the kind of โexperiential knowingโ that we get from literature and art, which is radically at odds with the โinformation-cultureโ of our time.