The humanities and public life /
This work 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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Format: | Electronic eBook |
Language: | Inglés |
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New York :
Fordham University Press,
2014.
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Edition: | First edition. |
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Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction / Peter Brooks
- Ordinary incredulous / Judith Butler
- Poetry, injury, and the ethics of reading / Elaine Scarry
- The ethics of reading / Charles Larmore
- Responses and discussion / Kwame Anthony Appiah, Jonathan Culler, Derek Attridge
- The raw and the half-cooked / Patricia J. Williams
- Conquering the obstacles to kingdom and fate : the ethics of reading and the university administrator / Ralph J. Hexter (with Craig Buckwald)
- Responses and discussion / Richard Sennett, Michael Roth, William Germano
- The call of another's words / Jonathan Lear
- On humanities and human rights / Paul W. Kahn
- Responses and discussion / Kim Lane Scheppele, Didier Fassin.