Humanities in the Twenty-First Century

Introduction: Reframing the 'Value' Debate for the Humanities; Eleonora Belfiore and Anna Upchurch PART I: THE HUMANITIES AND THEIR 'IMPACT' 1. The "Rhetoric of Gloom" vs. the Discourse of Impact in the Humanities: Stuck in a Deadlock?; Eleanora Belfiore 2. Speaking out in a Digital world: Humanities Values, Humanities Processes; Jan Parker PART II: UTILITY VS. VALUE 3. The Futility of the Humanities; Michael Bérubé 4. Fahrenheit 451 - The higher Philistinism; Jim McGuigan 5. Speaking of Impact... Languages and the Utility of the Humanities; David Looseley PART III: THE HUMANITIES AND INTERDISCIPLINARITY 6. The Histories of Medicine: Toward an Applied History of Medicine; Howard I. Kushner and Leslie S. Leighton 7. Productive Interactions: Geography and the Humanities; Connie Johnston PART IV: MEANING-MAKING AND THE MARKET 8. Museums and the Search for Meaning in the "Necessary Context" of the Market; Mark O'Neill 9. Values and Sustainability at Penland School of Crafts; Anna Upchurchand Jean McLaughlin PART V: DIGITIZATION, ETHICS AND THE HUMANITIES 10. The Humanities & Open Access Publishing: A New Paradigm of Value?; Eleonora Belfiore 11. Digital Right and the Ethics of Digitization: a Case Study in Technology and Implicit Contracts; Rick McGeer 12. Hacking the Humanities: 21st Century Literacies and the "Becoming-Other" of the Humanities; Mark J.V. Olson Bibliography Index