Humanities in the Twenty-First Century

1. Introduction: Reframing the ‘Value’ Debate for the Humanities
Eleonora Belfiore, Anna Upchurch

Part I. The Humanities and Their ‘Impact’

2. The ‘Rhetoric of Gloom’ v. the Discourse of Impact in the Humanities: Stuck in a Deadlock?
Eleonora Belfiore

3. Speaking Out in a Digital World: Humanities Values, Humanities Processes
Jan Parker

Part II. Utility v. Value

4. The Futility of the Humanities
Michael Bérubé

5. Fahrenheit 451: The Higher Philistinism
Jim McGuigan

6. Speaking of Impact: Languages and the Utility of the Humanities
David Looseley

Part III. The Humanities and Interdisciplinarity

7. The Histories of Medicine: Toward an Applied History of Medicine
Howard I. Kushner, Leslie S. Leighton

8. Productive Interactions: Geography and the Humanities
Connie Johnston

Part IV. Meaning Making and the Market

9. Museums and the Search for Meaning in the ‘Necessary Context’ of the Market
Mark O’Neill

10. Values and Sustainability at Penland School of Crafts
Anna Upchurch, Jean McLaughlin

Part V. Digitisation, Ethics, and the Humanities

11. The Humanities and Open-Access Publishing: A New Paradigm of Value?
Eleonora Belfiore

12. Digital Right and the Ethics of Digitisation: A Case Study in Technology and Implicit Contracts
Rick McGeer

13. Hacking the Humanities: Twenty-First-Century Literacies and the ‘Becoming-Other’ of the Humanities
Mark J. V. Olson

Nyckelord: Cultural and Media Studies, Arts, Literature, general, Cultural Studies, Science, general, Philosophy, general, Social History