Martha Nussbaum on the silent crisis of universities

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.