Eloquent, provocative, and timely, these essays provide a
thoughtful, undoctrinaire defense of the centrality of the
humanities to higher education--and society--at the
millennium.--Cora Kaplan, University of Southampton The crisis in
the humanities and higher education intensifies daily. The partisan
din drowns out the voices of those thinkers who have resisted the
seductions of strong ideology. Against the tendencies of the
extreme attacks on higher education from the right and the
counterattacks from the left, many academics would prefer to get
beyond critical fashions and easy slogans. In this collection,
leading scholars demonstrate how the current furor threatens the
critical analysis of culture, so vital to a healthy society. They
explore the historical sources of the crisis, the relations between
politics and research, the responsibilities and possibilities of
the academic intellectual, the structure of the institution of the
university, the functions and achievements of the humanities, and
the development of interdisciplinarity as a catalyst for change.
This volume is a necessary resource for understanding the current
crisis and for transforming the academy as we approach the
twenty-first century. The contributors are Jonathan Arac, Lauren
Berlant, Peter Brooks, Roman de la Campa, Myra Jehlen, Stanley
Katz, Richard Kramer, Dominick LaCapra, George Levine, Ellen
Messer-Davidow, Helene Moglen, Bill Readings, and Bruce Robbins. E.
Ann Kaplan is the director of The Humanities Institute at the State
University of New York at Stony Brook
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