January 11, 2008
How Can the Humanities Prove Their Worth?
One good thing about the culture wars of the 1980s and 1990s was that the conflict between the forces of liberalization and conservatism ensured that nobody asked whether or not the humanities mattered.
As the 21st century approached, the once-fierce battles over the cultural politics of the humanities drifted into somnolence. Scholars concentrated on pressing professional concerns, most notably the crisis in scholarly publishing articulated by Stephen Greenblatt, the 2002 president of
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