Through an interrogation of the nature and value of encounters with “difficulty” in Humanities Higher Education, this … essay aims to articulate some of the ways in which Humanities education itself, even in its least canonical and least … models for readers unfamiliar with Humanities scholarship the kinds of questions a Humanities perspective on a text might …

of the humanities. The discourse of the knowledge-based economy is at the heart of contemporary higher education policy … itself plays a decisive role in bringing about the current crisis of the humanities. While this crisis cannot be resolved …