TY  - BOOK
AU  - UPSO eCollections (University Press Scholarship Online).
AU  - Brooks,Peter
AU  - Jewett,Hilary
TI  - The humanities and public life /edited by Peter Brooks with Hilary Jewett
SN  - 9780823261406
AV  - AZ103 .H863 2014
PY  - 2014///
CY  - New York
PB  - Fordham University Press
KW  - Humanities
KW  - Moral and ethical aspects
KW  - Reading
KW  - Human rights
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - 1; 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; 2; b
N2  - 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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