2013
DOI: 10.3390/h3010001
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Abstract: Every generation faces the same challenge, to engage with the past and to cope with the present, while building its future. However, the questions and problems inherent in human life remain the same. It is a given that our society can only progress if we work toward handling ever newly rising demands in appropriate ways based on what we know and understand in practical and theoretical terms; but the drumming toward the future cannot be a one-way street. Instead, we have to operate with a Janus-faced strategy, … Show more

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“…At the risk of carrying the proverbial coals to Newcastle, let us review the problematic issues and delve into them more deeply, pursuing specifically moral and ethical arguments, especially within older literature. Over the past few years, I have repeatedly outlined specific strategies and analyses of how to explain the relevance of the humanities in light of medieval poetry, for instance (e.g., Classen 2017Classen , 2018aClassen , 2020b. Nonetheless, the challenges remain and continue to threaten our existence because there are many times that administrators are ready to put our field on the chopping block in order to find short-term and simple solutions to many of their own problems due to financial mismanagement, lavish athletic programs, overblown bureaucratic structures on the upper levels, and the general corporatization of the university, apart from general economic downturns or the government's declining interest in supporting post-secondary education.…”
Section: Why the Humanities?mentioning
confidence: 99%
“…At the risk of carrying the proverbial coals to Newcastle, let us review the problematic issues and delve into them more deeply, pursuing specifically moral and ethical arguments, especially within older literature. Over the past few years, I have repeatedly outlined specific strategies and analyses of how to explain the relevance of the humanities in light of medieval poetry, for instance (e.g., Classen 2017Classen , 2018aClassen , 2020b. Nonetheless, the challenges remain and continue to threaten our existence because there are many times that administrators are ready to put our field on the chopping block in order to find short-term and simple solutions to many of their own problems due to financial mismanagement, lavish athletic programs, overblown bureaucratic structures on the upper levels, and the general corporatization of the university, apart from general economic downturns or the government's declining interest in supporting post-secondary education.…”
Section: Why the Humanities?mentioning
confidence: 99%
“…This paper explores the humanities as a discipline, which is inevitably embedded in the context discussed above, and further examines how humanities education in higher education can be repositioned for the future. It is important to note that this paper does not subscribe to the notion of the humanities being handcuffed to a crisis narrative which is incomplete and ultimately disabling for the future development of the discipline (see Burish 2018;Cassuto 2017;Classen 2014;McCumber 2016;Mulholland 2010;Stover 2017). The first section of the paper further explores the ongoing re-assessment of the roles and functions of universities vis-a-vis wider society.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…In a previous contribution to this journal I examined the broader question and answered it mostly by looking at a selection of medieval texts that continue to speak to us today [47,48]. Subsequently, in another paper published elsewhere, I examined two major texts from the German Middle Ages to illustrate how much they can illuminate basic human concerns: the Nibelungenlied (ca.…”
Section: The Meaning Of the Past For The Present And The Futurementioning
confidence: 99%