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This is a failure of imagination as much as it is a failure of understanding. We are haunted by a sense that what we do is somehow inadequate or pointless. It is primarily something far more worrying: a crisis of confidence among ourselves, a crisis caused by a failure of self-understanding. But the crisis in the humanities is not just a crisis caused by some Bad Guys who want to destroy All That Is Good. As enrollments decline, programs are cut, and tenure diminishes, mainstream educational institutions are becoming uncomfortable places for teachers who want to pass on a zeal for humanist learning. What is the point of studying the humanities? The question reflects the current climate among humanist educators: anxiety shading into despair. ![]() This dignity, along with the universality of the objects of the intellect-that is, that they are available to everyone-is what opens up space for real communion. ![]() The removal of intellectual life from the world, the withdrawn person’s independence from contests over wealth or status, provides or reveals a dignity that can’t be ranked or traded.
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