George Steiner on How To Reform The Humanities?
Channel: TheNexusInstitute
Date: 2013-02-22

‘Universitas?’ Part III. Read Steiner’s full lecture in Becoming Human Is an Art: https://nexus-instituut.nl/en/publication/becoming-human-is-an-art

In our times, there are still educational institutions which call themselves universities. But do they still have a claim to universitas, the all-encompassing ideal of knowledge which the West inherited from Athens and Rome? In an unequalled indictment of the spirit of our times, George Steiner, world-renowned literary scholar and cultural critic, lectures modern universities. His criticism contains an exhortation to us all.