July 2, 1999

Pressing Issues for a New Generation of Humanists

By JOHN H. D'ARMS

If, as many believe, the academy's culture wars are beginning to subside, what's next for the humanities? Who are the scholars working at reconciliation, trying to map common ground, to wed the best of the new scholarship to the best of the old, and -- no easy task -- attempting the ambitious scholarship that will make its mark on the next generation?

At the risk of greatly oversimplifying a complex set of

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