Description

Stefan Collini, Onora O’Neill, and Rens Bod present us with a more accurate picture of what goes on in the humanities today. 

Their three essays highlight the worldliness of the humanities in this book edited by Anders Engberg-Pedersen, a Danish Professor of Comparative Literature. ”We need a better account of what the humanities are, what humanist scholars do and how they do it, what is done with the knowledge they produce, and how this knowledge seeps into society and other institutions and sciences through multiple channels to shape our common world.”

Content

Introduction: The Humanities in the World

Anders Engberg-Pedersen, Mikkel Bille, Karen Gram-Skjoldager

On Not “Justifying” the Humanities

Stefan Collini

The Humanities beyond Interpretation

Onora O’Neill

How the Humanities Have Changed the World

Rens Bod

PUBLICATION DATE: 29 MAY 2020