1. Martha Nussbaum, Not for Profit: Why Democracy Needs the Humanities (Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2010), 2.
2. Toby Miller, Blow Up the Humanities (Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press, 2012), 1.
3. Ibid., 82–88. These are all also connected to the rise of neoliberalism. See, for example, Henry Giroux’s The Terror of Neoliberalism: Authoritarianism and the Eclipse of Democracy (Boulder, CO, and London: Paradigm, 2004), The University in Chains: Confronting the Military Industrial Academic Complex (Boulder, CO, and London: Paradigm, 2007), Hearts of Darkness: Torturing Children in the War on Terror (Boulder, CO, and London: Paradigm, 2010), as well as other recent work by him.
4. Ibid., 108. A few years back, the question was raised as to whether semiotics was trying to gain a second wind by trying to “repackage” itself as cultural studies. Miller’s suggestions raise a related question: whether cultural studies is now trying to gain a second wind by trying to “repack-age” itself as humanities. See Jeffrey R. Di Leo, “Cultural Studies, Semiotics, and the Politics of Repackaging Theory,” in Academe Degree Zero: Reconsidering the Politics of Higher Education (Boulder, CO, and London: Paradigm, 2012) for my thoughts on the former question; the latter question is a good one though better left for another occasion.
5. Louis Menand, The Marketplace of Ideas: Reform and Resistance in the American University (New York and London: W. W. Norton, 2010), 17.