The Humanities in the World

Three essays highlight the worldliness of the humanities in this short book edited by Anders Engberg-Pedersen, a Danish Professor of Comparative Literature. We need a better account of what the humanities are, what humanist scholars do and how they do it, what is done with the knowledge they produce, and how this knowledge seeps into society and other institutions and sciences through multiple channels to shape our common world.

Rens Bod is professor of Computational and Digital Humanities at the University of Amsterdam Stefan Collini is Professor Emeritus of Intellectual History and English Literature at the University of Cambridge Onora O Neill is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at the University of Cambridge Anders Engberg-Pedersen is Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Southern Denmark