What has happened to the humanities?

ABSTRACT

This is an edited version of the text of the Annual Schonland Lecture which was delivered at Rhodes University on 28th of September 2010. While honouring the contribution of Selmar and Basil Schonland, it critiques South Africa's post-apartheid science policy as both utilitarian and derivative. This policy has marginalised the Humanities and the Social Sciences, which have been stripped of their citizenship in the academy.

Keywords:

• humanities
• science policy
• innovation
• utilitarianism
• Gibbons
• Mode One knowledge
• Mode Two knowledge
• Neo-Liberal