Western Humanities Review, vol. LXV, n°3, Fall 2011 : "Economics and the Humanities"

Western Humanities Review. Volume LXV, Number 3, Fall 2011 : "Economics and the Humanities"

Sous la direction de Lise Leibacher-Ouvrard and Reginald McGinnis

180 p.

On the Current State of Affairs

Reinventing Public Universities: 

From Funding Deadlock to Bootleg U.…………….….Christopher Newfield                        6

The Real Class War……………………………......... Peter Krapp and Catherine Liu         25

The Humanities, Higher Education, and Social Class:
The Best That Has Been Thought and Memorized:…………….……Gaye Tuchman          38 

The Liberal Arts and the Marketplace………….………….……………Lisa Colletta          49

A Message in Need of Revision:
Humanities, the Academy, and “Hard Times”……………….…… Monica F. Jacobe         58

The Humanities, RCM, and Bullshit………..........….............................Stephen Watt         66

A Longer View

Crisis and the Sacred…………………………………….….….... Jean-Pierre Dupuy          88

General Bankruptcy………………………….…..…….…..…..........Jean-Michel Rey         98       

Economics and Liquidity in John Maynard Keynes’ Politics

and Italo Svevo’s La Coscienza di Zeno .....................................John Vignaux Smyth       115

The Role of the Humanities in the Age of Globalization:

Reading Mukherjee, Kincaid and Coetzee

……………………………………………….……………….…………Suresh Raval       134

Salary, Justice, and Gift: The Work of the Teacher ……….….….……Marcel Hénaff      159

Contributors’ Notes……………………………………………………………………      177