The Transformative Humanities: A Manifesto by Mikhail Epstein (review)

Future Humanities

“…In Future Humanities we reject both the claim whereby humanities are done for and the defensive attitude that tends to crystallise its faded and archaic configurations. On the one hand we believe that, far from being in crisis, the humanities are rather going through a paroxysm which will ultimately lead to transformation (Epstein, 2012); on the other hand, we believe that the humanities should look beyond and critically challenge their humanist legacy and seek fruitful transversal interactions with contemporary sciences and arts. The humanities have always been strong in the imagination of forms of life.…”