The Challenges of the Humanities, Past, Present, and Future

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medieval literature; relevance of the past for the future; Jesuits; Boethius; Hildebrandslied; Gautier de Coinci; Marie de France; Christine de Pizan; Hartmann von Aue; Meister Eckhart; humanities; crisis; historical context; early nineteenth century; utilitarianism; Percy Shelley; public value; humanities; history and philosophy of the humanities; classification; theories of time and temporality; diffractive reading; C.P. Snow; Alfred North Whitehead; beauty; Humanities; qualitative research; research-teaching linkages; graduate attributes; collective memory; climate change; humanities; virtue; environmental politics; ethics; goodness; humanism; economicism; modernity; postmodernity; humanism; humanities; value; crisis; Nietzsche; minor literature; Deleuze; Guattari; humanities; crisis; Martha Nussbaum; neoliberalism; higher education reforms; democratic citizenship; diversity; freedom; new humanities; cognitive studies; memory; computer science; literature; narrative identity; digital gendering; consciousness; quantum physics; clinical humanities; nursing; healing; nursing education; social suffering; Duns Scotus; Giambattista Vico; Francis Bacon; simulation; artificiality; machine; cybernetics; Culture Wars; nanotechnology; transhumanism