A “Network for Academic Freedom” has taken a lot of space in the German press. The authors take a differentiated look at the questions raised.
Tag Archive for ‘Humanities (Geisteswissenschaften)’
Prizing Public History?
To create a public history prize is an act of advocacy and of self-assertion. It signals the value and the scale of the activity being celebrated. There has to be enough of it going on and enough people…
Prefigurative Art and Micro-Utopias
One of the important aims of prefigurative art would be the creation of “critical hope”, which Ewa Domańska presents here strategically as an obligation of any humanities scholar faced with real threats.
Post-ism. The Humanities, Displaced by their Trends
What is post-ism about? The humanities are a scholarly institution in which human culture is thematized, investigated, and analyzed. They do it in the special way we call ‘scholarly’ or, in most other languages, ‘scientific’. But, nevertheless…
Thank you—No Offence Meant! The Humanities in Splendid Isolation
From our “Wilde 13” section. Abstract: “Thank you for your kind introduction,” “Many thanks for your stimulating comments,” “Thank you for those further references,” “Thank you, I shall… Read More ›