Special Double Issue: Humanities and the Liberal University: Calls to Action and Exemplary Essays
A special issue of writings from and inspired by Arendt, Attridge, Barnett, Bhabha, Clarke, Deegan, Derrida, Evans, Heaney, Kanter, Mandela, Moltow, Ndebele, Nussbaum, Stimpson, Strathern, Tagore, New Voices, and Editors.
From the introduction, by editor-in-chief Jan Parker:
How do we do defend the Humanities? How do we stave off anti-liberal agendas? How we make our universities fit for [liberal] purpose?
Our answer has always been, by our writing – advocating and illuminating the values inherent and produced by our ‘skill-ful’ meaning-making practices – on campus, in the virtual classroom, in the community.
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This Special Issue has been convened in difficult times, in response to a gathering sense not just of institutional and political opposition to the Arts and Humanities, but to the urgent need, internationally, to promote our subjects as higher education. So, we have brought together leading thinkers – many of whom were founder members of our editorial board and also were involved in the seminal AHHE ‘Future Priorities of the Humanities’ forum – to reflect on the prominent Humanists with whom they have worked and who inspired them.
February/April 2014; 13 (1-2)
Special Double Issue: Humanities and the Liberal University: Calls to Action and Exemplary Essays