Title:

Looking at the Humanities from the Outside

Creator:

Luria, S. E. (Salvador Edward), 1912-1991

Date:

28 October 1972

Description:

Luria presented this speech on the social role of the university at a meeting of the New England College English Association. Much of it revisits topics first discussed two years earlier in an article he cowrote with Zella, entitled "The Role of the University: Ivory Tower, Service Station, or Frontier Post?" Here, he advocated fostering connectivity between one's scholarship and social activities and addressed the nature and purpose of the humanities, which he saw as the study of moralism. While doing so, he explored how two men he admired, his high school literature teacher and American historian Henry Steele Commager, were representative of this ideal.

Original Repository:

American Philosophical Society. Library. Salvador Luria Papers

Rights:

Reproduced with permission of Daniel D. Luria. and Reproduced with permission of the American Philosophical Society.

Genre:

Speeches

Format:

Text

Extent:

13 pages

Relation:

The Role of the University: Ivory Tower, Service Station, or Frontier Post?, 1970

Language:

English

Legacy Source Citation:

Original Repository. American Philosophical Society. Library. Salvador Luria Papers. 12096

Legacy ID:

QLBBHS

NLM ID:

101584611X118

Profiles Collection:

The Salvador E. Luria Papers

Shareable Link:

https://profiles.nlm.nih.gov/101584611X118

Story Section:

Later Career: Teacher and Administrator, 1972-1991