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The Crisis of Human Rights

Survival, 2015
Four recent books – by Stephen Hopgood, Allen Buchanan, Monica Serrano and Thomas G. Weiss, and Costas Douzinas and Conor Gearty – show the need for a more systematic link between the abstract foundations and everyday life of human rights.
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The soil crisis – signal of a continuing crisis in humanity’s thinking

International Review For Human and Natural Sciences, 2023
Soil is the basis of life on planet Earth and therefore naturally belongs to all of humanity. In fact, the ownership of the soil is a determinant of the ownership of life. In 2004, with Slovakia’s accession to the European Union, Slovak soil was also included in the European Union’s reservoir of soil wealth.
Kristína Králiková, Jozef Králik
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Global Capitalism and the Crisis of Humanity

Race & Class, 2015
William Robinson's (2014) Global capitalism and the crisis of humanity is the product of an ambitious undertaking that seeks to elaborate on and apply the theory of global capitalism in relation to...
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The Crisis of Humanities as a Crisis of Democracy

2022
The paper focuses on the harmful consequences of the contemporary tendency to marginalise the humanities at all levels of the educational process. Taking into account that humans are, as Martha Nussbaum puts it, intelligent narrators, a feat that they accomplish through an education in humanities, a human being is capable of enriching the structures of
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Background: The Crisis of the Humanities

2016
Humanities—it has been underlined by many sources—are currently facing a multilayered type of crisis that involve, at the same time (and in organic fashion), their impact on, and role within, society; their popularity among students and scholars; and ultimately their identity as producers and promoters of knowledge.
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The Crisis of the Humanities in Egypt

Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East, 2017
This article studies the difficulties that befall the teaching of the humanities in Egyptian universities. It argues that as is the situation globally, the humanities are in crisis in Egypt. This crisis stems from a complete lack of support by public figures, antiquated pedagogical methods in universities, and distorted admissions policies that ...
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Race and the Crisis of Humanism

2012
"In Kay Anderson's book, she argues that British colonial encounters in Australia from the late 1700s with the apparently unimproved condition of the Australian Aborigine, viewed against an understanding of 'humanity' of the time (i.e. as characterised by separation from nature), precipitated a crisis in existing ideas of what it meant to be human ...
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Citizenship, the Canon and the Crisis of the Humanities

2007
The moral and political reputation of the humanities is problematic. The modern cultural and historical disciplines emerged in the process of nation building. Especially historians, but also linguists and scholars of literature, acted in the nineteenth century as the godfathers of romantic nationalism.
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