The Two Cultures: On The Humanities Crisis

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	The Two Cultures: On The Humanities Crisis
	Jeremy, J.C.
	2020-08-22
Source Publication	Rupkatha International Open Conference
Publication Place	Chaulia
Publisher	Rupkatha Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities
Abstract	The history of the present is replete with the language of crisis, which has infiltrated various domains including the political, economic, social, environmental, and moral. Those various proclamations of collapse and disaster intersect somewhat in yet another crisis that we have become all too familiar with: the Humanities crisis. We are regularly reminded, and with intensifying pleas of urgency, that the Humanities are in peril. While various commentators have linked the troubling erosion of the Humanities to the present and impending failures of critical thought, democracy, and civic duty, the Humanities are still widely regarded as unable to measure up to the emerging dominant metrics of value. What then is to be done? How might we come to the defense of the Humanities without merely mouthing banal pieties or capitulating to the paralyzing force of cynical reason? Avoiding both prescriptive polemics and resignation to the corporate university’s remorseless logic of markets, I offer some reflections on what might constitute a valid defense of the Humanities. I suggest a plural form of defense that does not exacerbate what C.P. Snow has called “a gulf of mutual comprehension” between “two cultures” (1963, p. 4).
Keyword	humanities crisis nussbaum neoliberalism
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Language	英語English
The Source to Article	PB_Publication
PUB ID	52646
Document Type	Conference paper
Collection	DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH
Corresponding Author	Jeremy, J.C.
Recommended Citation GB/T 7714	Jeremy, J.C.. The Two Cultures: On The Humanities Crisis[C], Chaulia:Rupkatha Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities, 2020.
APA	Jeremy, J.C..(2020). The Two Cultures: On The Humanities Crisis. Rupkatha International Open Conference.

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