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r ‚ Mt is widely recognized that we are In the midst of a crisis in how universities are | organized, the ends they serve, and the place they hold in national life. The humanities are at the epicenter of changes now taking place. Mikhail Epstein is uniquely qualified to grasp the complex nature of the current dilemma and, more importantly, to provide a blueprint for the future that is both visionary and realistic. In an age in which a tsunami of sheer data threatens to overwhelm our capacity to make sense of it, Epstein's revolutionary project demonstrates how wisdom can triumph over brute information. His manifesto is one of the best informed, and most compelling arguments | know for education that ìs still centered on haw to be human.” Michael Holquist, Professor Emeritus, Comparative and Slavic Literature, Yale University, USA “The Transformative Humanities is a critical manifesto for our times, The humanities, denigrated, underfunded, abandoned, and increasingly seen as irrelevant, are here rethought and reordered. Not a claim for a more economically viable or culturaliy more retevant form of the humanities; not an argument that states we need the humanities to make better citizens or more humane professionals, Epstein looks at the core of the humanities and sees its vitality and strength undiminished beneath layers of disciplinary morbidity and administrative pandering. A book that ALL humanists need to read to understand the problems and the advantages of the humanities in the 21st century.” Sander L. Gilman, Distinguished Professor of the Liberal Arts and Sciences; Professor of Psychiatry, Emory University, USA “An unforeseen boon of the 1989-91 revolutions in the Soviet bloc has been the reinvigoration of Western intellectual life. Among the most significant and startling contributions of East European thought since '89 have come to us from Mikhail Epstein. The first questions that he posed were: Why post-? Why not proto-? His concern ever since has been to redirect humanists from self-pity toward ‘inventorship.' The task Epstein has set himself is no less than to invent concepts, reinvent attitudes, and engineer a technics tfrat will render the humanities human at last.” Jeffrey M. Perl, Professor of English L terature, Bar-llan University, Israel, and Founding Editor of Common Knowledge MIKHAIL EPSTEIN is the Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Cultural Theory and Russian Literature at Emory University, USA, and Professor of Russtan and Cultural Theory at Durham University, UK. 7