Beneath and Beyond the "Crisis in the Humanities"
@article{Harpham2005BeneathAB, title={Beneath and Beyond the "Crisis in the Humanities"}, author={Geoffrey Galt Harpham}, journal={New Literary History}, year={2005}, volume={36}, pages={21 - 36} }
One way of focusing the perennial crisis in the humanities is to think of it as a crisis of rationale, an inability by humanists to articulate what they do in a way that makes clear its distinctiveness and value to the larger culture. This paper attempts to establish the elements of a rationale. The first is the fact that the object of humanistic study is best conceived as a "text," a material and public medium produced in the past and requiring disciplined attention. The second is the premise…
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