Like most of my colleagues in art history, English, history, modern languages, musicology, philosophy, rhetoric and adjacent fields, I am concerned about the current crisis in the humanities. Then again, as a student of the history of the modern university, I know that there haven’t been too many decades over the last 150 years during which we humanities scholars have not employed the term “crisis” to portray our place in the academy.
Would We Rather the Humanities ‘Be Ruined Than Changed’?Yes, the humanities are in crisis—but enough with the hyperbole already.
By Richard Utz