Imagining the Humanities--Amid the Inhuman

Autor/in	Barnett, Ronald
Titel	Imagining the Humanities--Amid the Inhuman
Quelle	In: Arts and Humanities in Higher Education: An International Journal of Theory, Research and Practice, 13 (2014) 1-2, S.42-53 (12 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1474-0222
DOI	10.1177/1474022213511338
Schlagwörter	Humanities; Humanities Instruction; Higher Education; Post High School Guidance; Sciences; Social Influences; Imagination; Foreign Countries; STEM Education; United Kingdom + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Geisteswissenschaften; Humanwissenschaften; Geisteswissenschaftlicher Unterricht; Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Science; Wissenschaft; Sozialer Einfluss; Ausland; STEM; Großbritannien
Abstract	The rationale for retaining the humanities in universities in the 21st century is not self-evident. A case for the humanities can only be fully made against a sense of their loss or their absence. Some say that we are already in a post-human society, but what role might the humanities play in such a society? Presumably, the fate of the humanities is bound up with a sense as to what it is to be human, and that such being-human, such human being, has value. The humanities are rather self-centred, it seems, according human being a special place on this planet. Perhaps some modesty is called for. The humanities go through crises--a crisis of the humanities--every decade or so. Are we currently in the midst of just such a crisis? Or is it a terminal crisis? It may be that a new kind of imaginative and critical humanities awaits. (As Provided).
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