| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
1 online resource (172 pages) |
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text rdacontent |
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computer rdamedia |
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online resource rdacarrier |
| 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. |
| Note |
Description based on print version record. |
| Subject |
Humanities -- Moral and ethical aspects.
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Reading -- Moral and ethical aspects.
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Human rights -- Moral and ethical aspects.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Brooks, Peter, 1938-
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Jewett, Hilary.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Humanities and public life. New York : Fordham University Press, 2014 vi, 164 pages 9780823257041 (DLC)17888499 |
| ISBN |
9780823257041 (cloth : alk. paper) |
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9780823257058 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
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