How does big data contribute to our understanding of Hugo, Balzac or Flaubert? A great deal, because far from being a mechanical accumulation of data on literary texts, the digital humanities transform our relationship to works and the way we read them.
Is the teaching of the humanities a luxury that today’s societies can no longer afford? Martha Nussbaum responds that, on the contrary, in a world of globalized economic competition, there are social and political reasons for studying the humanities.
