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The humanities and public life

Title
The humanities and public life / edited by Peter Brooks with Hilary Jewett.
ISBN
9780823257041 (cloth : alk. paper)
0823257045 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780823257058 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0823257053 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Edition
First edition.
Publication
New York : Fordham University Press, 2014.
Physical Description
vii, 164 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
May 06, 2014
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references.
Contents
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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