Reflections on Key Issues in Human Life: Gottfried von Strassburg’s <i>Tristan</i>, Dante’s <i>Divina Commedia</i>, Boccaccio’s <i>Decameron</i>, Michael Ende’s <i>Momo</i>, and Fatih Akın’s <i>Soul Kitchen</i>—Manifesto in Support of the Humanities—What Truly Matters in the End?

There are available by now many arguments concerning the intrinsic and endemic value of the humanities, and both from a medievalist and a modernist perspective. Similarly, there continue to be many critics who would not mind the elimination of the humanities and argue vociferously for this goal. Eve...

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Main Author: Albrecht Classen
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2020-10-01
Series:Humanities
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Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/2076-0787/9/4/121