IntroductionPlaying the role of a devil's advocate, Stanley Fish (Haven 2009), an eminent deconstructionist, in his blog "Think Again," sparked off a worldwide debate declaring, "It is not the business of the humanities to save us, no more than it is their business to bring revenue to a state or a university." Picking up the debate, Haven (2009) of Stanford Report interviewed a cross section of American academia to seek their opinion. She asked them whether they saw any prospects for arts and humanities in the twenty-first century. Needless to say, most were ambivalent on the topic. In his book, The Closing of the American Mind, Bloom (1987) grieves how university education in America has failed and how since the 1960s American culture has become vapid, churning out youth who are rudderless and self-absorbed. A similar refrain is heard from Steven Muller (Carlisle 2011), former President of John Hopkins University, who laments the failure of higher education ...
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