Download or read book Humanities in the Twenty-First Century written by Eleonora Belfiore and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-07-29 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays by scholars with expertise in a range of fields, cultural professionals and policy makers explores different ways in which the arts and humanities contribute to dealing with the challenges of contemporary society in ways that do not rely on simplistic and questionable notions of socio-economic impact as a proxy for value.