The humanities and public life /

The humanities and public life / edited by Peter Brooks with Hilary Jewett. - First edition. - 1 online resource (172 pages)

Includes bibliographical references.

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.




Humanities--Moral and ethical aspects.
Reading--Moral and ethical aspects.
Human rights--Moral and ethical aspects.


Electronic books.

AZ103 / .H846 2014

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