The humanities and public life /edited by Peter Brooks with Hilary Jewett.
The humanities and public life /edited by Peter Brooks with Hilary Jewett.
- First edition.
- New York : Fordham University Press, (c)2014.
- 1 online resource (vii, 164 pages) : illustrations
Includes bibliographical references.
Introduction / Ordinary incredulous / Poetry, injury, and the ethics of reading / The ethics of reading / Responses and discussion / The raw and the half-cooked / Conquering the obstacles to kingdom and fate : the ethics of reading and the university administrator / Responses and discussion / The call of another's words / On humanities and human rights / Responses and discussion / Peter Brooks -- Judith Butler -- Elaine Scarry -- Charles Larmore -- Kwame Anthony Appiah, Jonathan Culler, Derek Attridge -- Patricia J. Williams -- Ralph J. Hexter (with Craig Buckwald) -- Richard Sennett, Michael Roth, William Germano -- Jonathan Lear -- Paul W. Kahn -- Kim Lane Scheppele, Didier Fassin.
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 professional training and to public life.
9780823261406 9780823257089 9780823257065 9780823261468
Humanities--Moral and ethical aspects.
Reading--Moral and ethical aspects.
Human rights--Moral and ethical aspects.
Electronic Books.
AZ103 / .H863 2014
Includes bibliographical references.
Introduction / Ordinary incredulous / Poetry, injury, and the ethics of reading / The ethics of reading / Responses and discussion / The raw and the half-cooked / Conquering the obstacles to kingdom and fate : the ethics of reading and the university administrator / Responses and discussion / The call of another's words / On humanities and human rights / Responses and discussion / Peter Brooks -- Judith Butler -- Elaine Scarry -- Charles Larmore -- Kwame Anthony Appiah, Jonathan Culler, Derek Attridge -- Patricia J. Williams -- Ralph J. Hexter (with Craig Buckwald) -- Richard Sennett, Michael Roth, William Germano -- Jonathan Lear -- Paul W. Kahn -- Kim Lane Scheppele, Didier Fassin.
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 professional training and to public life.
9780823261406 9780823257089 9780823257065 9780823261468
Humanities--Moral and ethical aspects.
Reading--Moral and ethical aspects.
Human rights--Moral and ethical aspects.
Electronic Books.
AZ103 / .H863 2014