02323nam a2200397 i 4500 ebr10810768 CaPaEBR m o d cr cn||||||||| 130917s2014 nyu ob 000 0 eng|d 9780823257041 (cloth : alk. paper) 9780823257058 (pbk. : alk. paper) CaPaEBR eng rda pn CaPaEBR AZ103 .H846 2014eb 001.3 23 The humanities and public life / edited by Peter Brooks with Hilary Jewett. First edition. New York : Fordham University Press, 2014. 1 online resource (172 pages) text rdacontent computer rdamedia online resource rdacarrier 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. Description based on print version record. Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2013. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries. Humanities Moral and ethical aspects. Reading Moral and ethical aspects. Human rights Moral and ethical aspects. Electronic books. Brooks, Peter, 1938- Jewett, Hilary. Print version: Humanities and public life. New York : Fordham University Press, 2014 vi, 164 pages 9780823257041 (DLC)17888499 ebrary. http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10810768 An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view 148411 148411