The Edinburgh Companion to the New European Humanities

This interdisciplinary reference work is a substantive contribution to the contemporary humanities and offers a navigational tool to reflect the value and relevance of the humanities to knowledge and society, with a special focus on the European region at large. The future-oriented approach of the contributors highlights the positive and multidimensional impact of the humanities on core areas of human experience. New ethical social imaginaries, gendered scenarios and spaces of decolonial transculturality are explored. They propose innovative tools to increase collective awareness of forms of injustice, exclusion, and the suffering of both the human and the non-human inhabitants of this planet. The result is a comprehensive overview of the way in which the humanities is currently transforming from the inside while responding to major political challenges of the 21st century. Key features: - Offers a timely map of important trends written by internationally grounded experts - Presents emerging key sub-areas of the humanities including digital humanities, intercultural humanities, environmental humanities and medical humanities - Combines theoretical speculation with policy-making pragmatism - Critically questions the implicit foundation of the humanities, asking if the notion of 'the human' and their claims to universality are too narrow and in need of rethinking. Rosi Braidotti is Distinguished University Professor at Utrecht University, the Netherlands. Hiltraud Casper-Hehne, is Professor of Intercultural German Studies/Language Studies in the Faculty of Philosophy at the University of Göttingen, Germany. Daan F. Oostveen is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Institute for Culture Inquiry and Lecturer at the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies at Utrecht University, the Netherlands. Marjan Ivkovic is a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory at the University of Belgrade, Serbia.