Farewell to the Humanities

被引:5
作者
Wang, Xiaoying [1 ]
机构
[1] Wuhan Univ, Dept English, Wuhan, Peoples R China
来源
RETHINKING MARXISM-A JOURNAL OF ECONOMICS CULTURE & SOCIETY | 2005年 / 17卷 / 04期
关键词
University; Humanities; Capitalism;
D O I
10.1080/08935690500241352
中图分类号
D0 [政治学、政治理论];
学科分类号
0302 ; 030201 ;
摘要
This paper discusses the use and "uselessness'' of the Humanities in the context of the marketization of higher education. The misapplication of economic rationality to and within the Humanities has, I argue, emptied intellectual autonomy of its erstwhile political and social significance and turned academic labor in the Humanities into sheer abstract labor, measurable only in terms of quantity. The cause of this transformation should not, however, be attributed to the development of the capitalist order alone. The postmodernist rejection of "truth'' and related concepts has helped to level the distinction between knowledge in the Humanities as an end in itself and knowledge for utilitarian purposes, and has thereby hastened the collapse of the raison d'etre of the Humanities.
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页码:525 / 538
页数:14
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