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 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references. 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/> 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. 
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<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780823261406 9780823257089 9780823257065 9780823261468 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Humanities--Moral and ethical aspects.<br/>Reading--Moral and ethical aspects.<br/>Human rights--Moral and ethical aspects.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic Books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>AZ103  / .H863 2014