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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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor Corporativo: UPSO eCollections (University Press Scholarship Online)
Otros Autores: Jewett, Hilary (Editor ), Brooks, Peter, 1938- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Fordham University Press, 2014.
Edición:First edition.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Menschenrecht
Lesen
Geisteswissenschaften
Humanities > Moral and ethical aspects.
Human rights > Moral and ethical aspects.
EDUCATION > Higher.
REFERENCE > Questions & Answers.
Droits de l'homme (Droit international) > Aspect moral.
Lecture > Aspect moral.
Reading > Moral and ethical aspects.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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