The Place of Humanities in Our Universities

This volume examines the critical role of the humanities in universities in India and attempts to redefine its place, meaning and function in education. Bringing together distinguished scholars in the country, it debates the status and predicament of the humanities in the academic programmes within universities. The issues raised here touch upon <p><em>Contributors. Preface.</em> Introduction <b>1. </b>The Humanities in The English-Speaking West <b>2. </b>Re-Defining the Humanities: Place, Meaning, Function <b>3. </b>The Place of Humanities<i> </i><b>4.<i> </i></b>The Predicament of the Humanities: Reading through Bill Reading’s <i>The University in Ruins </i><b>5. </b>Humanities in the Age of their Digital Operability<i> </i><b>6.<i> </i></b>The Indispensability of Humanities <b>7. </b>Are We in for Post-Humanist Post-Humanities? <b>8. </b>Some Stacato Observations on Interactive Studies<i> </i><b>9. </b>Imaginaries of Ignorance: Five Ideas of the University and The Place of Humanities Within Them<i> </i><b>10. </b>What Humanities/ Sicial Sciences Can Mean: Transmuting ‘Two Cultures’ Idea<i> </i><b>11. </b>MOOCs: Virtual But Not Virtuous<i> </i><b>12. </b>The Place of Humanities in University Education<i>. Index</i></p><p></p>