The Crisis in the Humanities: Transdisciplinary Solutions

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This volume will appeal to the reader interested in the so-called long crisis in the humanities and transdisciplinary approaches as a possible way out of this. It comprises a selection of 23 essays by both established and young scholars from the United States, Slovenia, Croatia, and Serbia, coming from a variety of disciplines, including aesthetics, anthropology, architecture, art, critical theory, ethnography, feminism, film studies, gender and queer theory, literary theory, Marxism, musicology, philosophy, and sociology, among others. What brings all these together here is the intention to advance transdisciplinarity, both in theory and in practice, in their scholarly work, as a possible solution to this purported crisis, the subject of heated debate in academia since the 1960s, revolving around the crisis of the subject and the humanities positioning as a field of research. The book examines the place of the humanities in contemporary society, and challenges the ways that issues that form the foci of various disciplines have been addressed in recent theoretical discourses. It reflects on the status of the disciplines in the humanities, and explores the links between history, culture, media, and art.


About the Author


arko Cveji is an Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Media and Communications at Singidunum University, Belgrade, having received his PhD in Musicology from Cornell University in 2011. His publications in English include The Virtuoso as Subject: The Reception of Instrumental Virtuosity, c. 1815c. 1850 (2016), European Theories in Former Yugoslavia: Trans-theory Relations in Global and Local Discourses (co-edited with Miko uvakovi and Andrija Filipovi, 2015), and a number of scholarly articles on music, gender, and subjectivity published in the United Kingdom, the United States, and Serbia. Andrija Filipovi is an Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Media and Communications at Singidunum University, Belgrade, having received his PhD in Philosophy from the University of Belgrade in 2015. His publications include European Theories in Former Yugoslavia: Trans-theory Relations in Global and Local Discourses (co-edited with Miko uvakovi and arko Cveji, 2015) and several articles in leading Serbian scholarly journals. Ana Petrov is an Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Media and Communications at Singidunum University, Belgrade, having received her PhD in Sociology from the University of Belgrade in 2012. Her publications in English include a large number of articles and book chapters in scholarly journals and essay collections published in the UK, Sweden, Austria, Greece, Slovenia, and Serbia.