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In a 2010 article for The New York Times, literary theorist Stanley Fish comments on recent manifestations of the ‘crisis in the humanities’ in the form of language department closures at US universities such as at the State University of New York at Albany. Defending a ‘liberal arts’ education amid the neoliberalist reality of higher-education funding and knowledge production, Fish is nevertheless highly critical of a fellow respondent’s claims concerning the value of the humanities. This respondent asks in his letter, ‘What happened to public investment in the humanities and the belief that the humanities enhanced our culture, our society, our humanity?’ Fish advises caution concerning this line of defence, arguing:...
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