LEADER 05152nam 2200889 450 001 9910823776203321 005 20230803201556.0 010 $a0-8232-5705-3 010 $a0-8232-6146-8 010 $a0-8232-5708-8 010 $a0-8232-6140-9 010 $a0-8232-5706-1 024 7 $a10.1515/9780823257089 035 $a(CKB)3710000000072453 035 $a(EBL)3239866 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001059838 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12432152 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001059838 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11086706 035 $a(PQKB)11768090 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0000862635 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3239866 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0001386901 035 $a(DE-B1597)554978 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780823257089 035 $a(OCoLC)894476753 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse58921 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3239866 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10810768 035 $a(OCoLC)923764308 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1643967 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1643967 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL727816 035 $a(OCoLC)908079367 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000072453 100 $a20130917d2014 uy| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 04$aThe humanities and public life /$fedited by Peter Brooks with Hilary Jewett 205 $aFirst edition. 210 1$aNew York :$cFordham University Press,$d2014. 215 $a1 online resource (172 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-322-96534-X 311 $a0-8232-5704-5 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references. 327 $aIntroduction / 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. 330 $aThis book 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.What leverage does reading, of the attentive sort practiced in the interpretive humanities, give you on life? Does such reading represent or produce an ethics? The question was posed for many in the humanities by the ?Torture Memos? released by the Justice Department a few years ago, presenting arguments that justified the use of torture by the U.S. government with the most twisted, ingenious, perverse, and unethical interpretation of legal texts. No one trained in the rigorous analysis of poetry could possibly engage in such bad-faith interpretation without professional conscience intervening to say: This is not possible.Teaching the humanities appears to many to be an increasingly disempowered profession?and status?within American culture. Yet training in the ability to read critically the messages with which society, politics, and culture bombard us may be more necessary than ever in a world in which the manipulation of minds and heartsis more and more what running the world is all about.This volume brings together a group of distinguished scholars and intellectuals to debate the public role and importance of the humanities. Their exchange suggests that Shelley was not wrong to insist that poets are the unacknowledged legislators of mankind: Cultural change carries everything in its wake. The attentive interpretive reading practiced in the humanities ought to be an export commodity to other fields and to take its place in the public sphere. 606 $aHumanities$xMoral and ethical aspects 606 $aReading$xMoral and ethical aspects 606 $aHuman rights$xMoral and ethical aspects 610 $aEthics. 610 $aHumanities. 610 $aLaw. 610 $aPhilosophy. 610 $aProfessional Education. 610 $aReading. 610 $aTorture Memos. 610 $ainterpretation. 610 $aliterature. 615 0$aHumanities$xMoral and ethical aspects. 615 0$aReading$xMoral and ethical aspects. 615 0$aHuman rights$xMoral and ethical aspects. 676 $a001.3 700 $aBrooks$b Peter, $4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut$0184498 701 $aBrooks$b Peter$f1938-$0184498 701 $aJewett$b Hilary$01682588 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910823776203321 996 $aThe humanities and public life$94052829 997 $aUNINA