{"id":13615,"date":"2020-08-04T20:24:31","date_gmt":"2020-08-05T00:24:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thenewatlantis.com\/?post_type=collection&#038;p=13615"},"modified":"2020-08-04T20:24:32","modified_gmt":"2020-08-05T00:24:32","slug":"science-the-humanities-and-the-university","status":"publish","type":"collection","link":"https:\/\/www.thenewatlantis.com\/collections\/science-the-humanities-and-the-university","title":{"rendered":"Science, the Humanities, and the University"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Commentaries on the role  of science in the university usually bemoan the supposed scarcity of  American scientists and engineers, especially in comparison to the  numbers graduating from schools in China and India. Whatever the merits  of those concerns, far less attention is paid to the ways science has  transformed \u2014 and continues to transform \u2014 higher education, especially  the humanities. In the essays that follow, five non-scientists remark on  the state of the modern university. First, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thenewatlantis.com\/publications\/science-and-the-decline-of-the-liberal-arts\">Patrick J. Deneen<\/a> argues that science and global competition have hollowed out the liberal arts. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thenewatlantis.com\/publications\/the-technocratic-american-university\">Ivan Kenneally<\/a> connects the contradictions of today\u2019s university to America\u2019s unique relationship to modernity. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thenewatlantis.com\/publications\/human-dignity-and-higher-education\">Peter Augustine Lawler<\/a> explores the tension between freedom and dignity on campus and beyond. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thenewatlantis.com\/publications\/the-soul-of-the-scientist-of-man\">Shilo Brooks<\/a> brings us Nietzsche\u2019s account of the different characters of scientists and philosophers. And <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thenewatlantis.com\/publications\/the-ivy-league-lament\">Rita Koganzon<\/a> picks apart the meritocracy lament in recent memoirs of Ivy League education.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","collection_type":[2247],"topics":[2281],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thenewatlantis.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/collection\/13615"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thenewatlantis.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/collection"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thenewatlantis.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/collection"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thenewatlantis.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"collection_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thenewatlantis.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/collection_type?post=13615"},{"taxonomy":"topics","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thenewatlantis.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics?post=13615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}