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Why the Humanities?

In an era of university funding cuts, economic rationalism and the creeping perception that human progress comes to us principally via science and technology, why study literature? Or languages, or religion, or - dare we ask - philosophy? Who needs the Humanities? The latter question was the title of a recent forum held at Deakin University in Melbourne, and this week we hear from three of the participants.

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