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This book tests the proposition that the humanities can, and at their best do, represent a commitment to ethical reading. And that this commitment, and the training and discipline of close reading that underlie it, represent something that the humanities need to bring to other fields: to professiona...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Brooks, Peter (Autor, Contribuidor)
Otros Autores: Buckwald, Craig (Contribuidor), Butler, Judith (Contribuidor), Hexter, Ralph J. (Contribuidor), Jewett, Hilary (Contribuidor), Kahn, Paul W. (Contribuidor), Larmore, Charles (Contribuidor), Lear, Jonathan (Contribuidor), Scarry, Elaine (Contribuidor), Williams, Patricia J. (Contribuidor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York, NY : Fordham University Press, [2014]
Temas:
Human rights > Moral and ethical aspects.
Humanities > Moral and ethical aspects.
Reading > Moral and ethical aspects.
Education.
Literary Studies.
Philosophy & Theory.
LITERARY CRITICISM / General.
Ethics.
Humanities.
Law.
Philosophy.
Professional Education.
Reading.
Torture Memos.
interpretation.
literature.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Ordinary, Incredulous
  • Part One. Is There an Ethics of Reading?
  • Poetry, Injury, and the Ethics of Reading
  • The Ethics of Reading
  • Responses and Discussion
  • Part Two. The Ethics of Reading and the Professions
  • The Raw and the Half-Cooked
  • Conquering the Obstacles to Kingdom and Fate: The Ethics of Reading and the University Administrator
  • Responses and Discussion
  • Part Three. The Humanities and Human Rights
  • The Call of Another's Words
  • On Humanities and Human Rights
  • Responses and Discussion
  • Concluding Discussion
  • Notes
  • List of Contributors

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