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Classifying the humanities

Classification in the humanities faces a host of unique challenges which existing classification systems struggle to meet. The purpose of this paper is to explore whether a new approach to classification is able to better address these challenges. The humanities are defined here as the study of works of art (including literature)---art itself will be defined below. One challenge for the classificationist is that it is necessary both to classify works of scholarship and the works of art themselves.