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Our Arts & Humanities departments represent some of the top-ranked programs in the nation. The humanities disciplines use historical, philosophical, and artistic approaches to study the human condition. Humanistic knowledge plays a crucial part in the education of the individual and the betterment of society.
 

We are also a rich place to study, practice and perform art, creative writing, dance, media and visual arts, music and theater. Our programs are defined by the university’s culture of cross-disciplinary research and education. As a result, the whole of Duke serves as a resource for the arts, informing and deepening student and faculty exploration of artistic expression and tradition.

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Philosophy, Arts, and Literature

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Majors Offered
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Recent Arts & Humanities Faculty Publications

Afterlives of the Plantation
Afterlives of the Plantation
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The Fine Art of Persuasion
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Schopenhauer's Politics
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Quiet Defiance: The Rhetoric of Silent Protest Silent Protest
Runagate: Songs of the Freedom Bound
Runagate: Songs of the Freedom Bound
Book jacket cover for Crisis and Astonishment
Crisis and Astonishment
The Norton Anthology of English Literature: The Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries
The Norton Anthology of English Literature: The Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries
Demanding Whitness: Women and the Trauma of Homecoming in Greek Tragedy
Demanding Witness: Women and the Trauma of Homecoming in Greek Tragedy
Geschwister-Logik
Geschwister-Logik: Genealogisches Denken in der Literatur und den Wissenschaften der Moderne
Botanical Icons
Botanical Icons: Critical Practices of Illustration in the Premodern Mediterranean
Natalia Ginzburg's Global Legacies
Natalia Ginzburg's Global Legacies
Philosophical Mechanics in the Age of Reason
Philosophical Mechanics in the Age of Reason
Le bouddhisme est né à Colobane
Le bouddhisme est né à Colobane
Book jacket for The Lives of Jewish Things Collecting and Curating Material Culture
The Lives of Jewish Things: Collecting and Curating Material Culture
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The Enlightenment's Most Dangerous Woman
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