Worlds End, Worlds Begin: The Future of the Humanities Pt. 2

A lecture delivered at Clemson University in February, 2007 by Richard E. Miller, Chair of the English department, Rutgers University. Focuses on the transformative power of beauty in these apocalyptic times.

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[BandofSorensons]

There already is no real academic freedom in the humanities. If you don't conform to specific lines of thought, as delineated within specific journals, you will not succeed in getting published or acquiring tenure. What do humanities professors have to offer the world? What do they say about values that isn't tautological? What is the mysterious power of the humanities that you speak of? To publish more uninteresting self-important obscurest gibberish about phallic imagery in Chaucer?

[ponczek007]

Great lecture so far, i'll have more comments later.