ISSN: 2083-4381 OAI
DOI: 10.18276/psw.2018.2-08
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Martha Nussbaum on the silent crisis of universities
| Authors: |
Katarzyna
Ciarcińska
University of Szczecin |
| Keywords: | humanities Martha Nussbaum education crisis of universities |
| Whole issue publication date: | 2019 |
| Page range: | 6 (83-88) |
Abstract
The article concerns Martha Nussbaum’s recent work Not for profit. Why democracy needs the humanities, in
which Nussbaum speaks about the silent crisis touching universities around the world. This silent crisis
may go unnoticed, and is caused by removal of the humanities and the arts from the university and educational
programmes in virtually every nation of the world. Even though such crisis may go unnoticed,
it has a massive effect on the shape of our future societies. Nussbaum argues that governments discard
skills needed to keep democracies alive and leads to producing generations of useful machines, rather
than complete citizens. The article presents Nussbaum’s proposal for preventing such situation and thus
keeping democracy alive.
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Bibliography
| 1. | Nussbaum, M. (2010). Not for profit. Why democracy needs the humanities. Princeton–Oxford: Princeton |
| 2. | University Press. |