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  • Irina Dumitrescu (author)
Chapter of: Rumba under Fire: The Arts of Survival from West Point to Delhi(pp. xiii–xxiii)

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TitleIntroduction
ContributorIrina Dumitrescu (author)
DOIhttps://doi.org/10.21983/P3.0134.1.02
Landing pagehttps://punctumbooks.com/titles/rumba-under-fire/
Licensehttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
CopyrightDumitrescu, Irina
Publisherpunctum books
Published on2016-02-29
Long abstractIt is popular these days to bemoan the “crisis in the humani-ties,” or even triumphantly to declare their death.1 Enroll-ments in liberal arts majors have fallen dramatically, students having realized that studying art history or philosophy will consign them to a lifetime of flipping burgers and pouring cof-fee.2 The humanities have lost their way: in abandoning the tried-and-true classics of the Western canon, they have also abandoned any claim to authority, tradition, or lasting and objective values.3 The humanities have lost their edge: by fail-ing to reflect the experiences of increasingly diverse student bodies, they have become at best irrelevant, at worst oppres-sive.4 The humanities take place in the wrong media: print is outmoded, and the failure of scholars to adopt the new modes of thought and communication offered by the digital age will leave them behind. But the Internet is rendering universities obsolete anyway, as online courses offer a more flexible and democratic educational format. Besides which, nobody reads long books anymore. The post-digital world simply does not have the attention span for traditional humanistic work.
Page rangepp. xiii–xxiii
Print length16 pages
LanguageEnglish (Original)
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Irina Dumitrescu

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