© Columbia University Press
Progress and Values in the Humanities: Comparing Culture and Science
November, 2009
Cloth, 288 pages, 7 halftones
ISBN: 978-0-231-14790-3
$29.50
/ £20.50
"An interdisciplinary book that itself serves as an eloquent example of why the humanities are priceless . . . Essential." — Choice
"Volney Gay achieves his aim in a masterful, case-study-like manner by examining a wide-ranging set of characters-philosophers, artists, statesmen-along with their works and his own profession: psychoanalysis. His is a fascinating and erudite exegesis." — Christof Koch, California Institute of Technology
"Volney Gay's book touches on issues found in many different fields in the humanities and contributes in its own way to all of them." — Mark U. Edwards Jr., Harvard Divinity School
"This is an important book, superbly written and brilliantly argued. Volney Gay has an utterly rare sensibility. He understands complex issues, articulates difficult abstractions, and yet, at the same time, has a remarkable facility with words. He always searches out the apt illustration. He is widely literate not only in academic discourse but in popular culture, and he stitches together insights from these sources with remarkable facility." — Ronald L. Grimes, Radboud University, Nijmegen