{"title":"The usefulness of useless knowledge","authors":"K. Röttger","doi":"10.1515/9781400884629-002","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"This essay is based on a lecture that I held in the context of a series called Think! Humanities. Perspectives for an endangered species. It was set up at the University of Amsterdam in January 2015 to provide a discussion platform to exchange views on what course the humanities could take in the context of the then starting protests against the neoliberal university agenda.","PeriodicalId":38842,"journal":{"name":"Krisis","volume":"145 1","pages":"56-61"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2015-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Krisis","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400884629-002","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q3","JCRName":"Arts and Humanities","Score":null,"Total":0}
This essay is based on a lecture that I held in the context of a series called Think! Humanities. Perspectives for an endangered species. It was set up at the University of Amsterdam in January 2015 to provide a discussion platform to exchange views on what course the humanities could take in the context of the then starting protests against the neoliberal university agenda.