The Place of Humanities in Our Universities (Hardcover)

Contributors Preface Introduction [Mrinal Miri] The Humanities in The English-Speaking West [Akeeel Bilgrami] Re-Defining the Humanities: Place, Meaning, Function [Supriya Chaudhuri] The Place of Humanities [P. K. Mukhopadhyay] The Predicament of the Humanities: Reading through Bill Reading’s The University in Ruins [Alok Rai] Humanities in the Age of their Digital Operability [Amlan Das Gupta] The Indispensability of Humanities [Rajeeev Bhargava] Are We in for Post-Humanist Post-Humanities? [Prasenjit Biswas] Some Stacato Observations on Interactive Studies [Rajendra Prasad] Imaginaries of Ignorance: Five Ideas of the University and The Place of Humanities Within Them [Rukmini Bhaya Nair] What Humanities/ Sicial Sciences Can Mean: Transmuting ‘Two Cultures’ Idea [Sasheej Hegde] MOOCs: Virtual But Not Virtuous [Apoorvanand] The Place of Humanities in University Education [Mrinal Miri] Index