001477634 000__ 06961nam\a22011055i\4500 001477634 001__ 1477634 001477634 003__ DE-B1597 001477634 005__ 20231026034820.0 001477634 006__ m\\\\\o\\d\\\\\\\\ 001477634 007__ cr\un\nnnunnun 001477634 008__ 230103t20142014nyu\\\\\o\\d\z\\\\\\eng\d 001477634 020__ $$a9780823257089 001477634 0247_ $$a10.1515/9780823257089$$2doi 001477634 035__ $$a(DE-B1597)554978 001477634 035__ $$a(OCoLC)894476753 001477634 040__ $$aDE-B1597$$beng$$cDE-B1597$$erda 001477634 0410_ $$aeng 001477634 044__ $$anyu$$cUS-NY 001477634 050_4 $$aAZ103$$b.H846 2014 001477634 072_7 $$aLIT000000$$2bisacsh 001477634 08204 $$a001.3$$223 001477634 1001_ $$aBrooks, Peter, $$eauthor.$$4aut$$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut 001477634 24514 $$aThe Humanities and Public Life /$$cPeter Brooks. 001477634 264_1 $$aNew York, NY : $$bFordham University Press, $$c[2014] 001477634 264_4 $$c©2014 001477634 300__ $$a1 online resource (172 p.) 001477634 336__ $$atext$$btxt$$2rdacontent 001477634 337__ $$acomputer$$bc$$2rdamedia 001477634 338__ $$aonline resource$$bcr$$2rdacarrier 001477634 347__ $$atext file$$bPDF$$2rda 001477634 50500 $$tFrontmatter -- $$tContents -- $$tAcknowledgments -- $$tIntroduction -- $$tOrdinary, Incredulous -- $$tPart One. Is There an Ethics of Reading? -- $$tPoetry, Injury, and the Ethics of Reading -- $$tThe Ethics of Reading -- $$tResponses and Discussion -- $$tPart Two. The Ethics of Reading and the Professions -- $$tThe Raw and the Half-Cooked -- $$tConquering the Obstacles to Kingdom and Fate: The Ethics of Reading and the University Administrator -- $$tResponses and Discussion -- $$tPart Three. The Humanities and Human Rights -- $$tThe Call of Another's Words -- $$tOn Humanities and Human Rights -- $$tResponses and Discussion -- $$tConcluding Discussion -- $$tNotes -- $$tList of Contributors 001477634 506__ $$aAccess limited to authorized users. 001477634 520__ $$aThis book tests the proposition that the humanities can, and at their best do, represent a commitment to ethical reading. And that this commitment, and the training and discipline of close reading that underlie it, represent something that the humanities need to bring to other fields: to professional training and to public life.What leverage does reading, of the attentive sort practiced in the interpretive humanities, give you on life? Does such reading represent or produce an ethics? The question was posed for many in the humanities by the "Torture Memos" released by the Justice Department a few years ago, presenting arguments that justified the use of torture by the U.S. government with the most twisted, ingenious, perverse, and unethical interpretation of legal texts. No one trained in the rigorous analysis of poetry could possibly engage in such bad-faith interpretation without professional conscience intervening to say: This is not possible.Teaching the humanities appears to many to be an increasingly disempowered profession-and status-within American culture. Yet training in the ability to read critically the messages with which society, politics, and culture bombard us may be more necessary than ever in a world in which the manipulation of minds and heartsis more and more what running the world is all about.This volume brings together a group of distinguished scholars and intellectuals to debate the public role and importance of the humanities. Their exchange suggests that Shelley was not wrong to insist that poets are the unacknowledged legislators of mankind: Cultural change carries everything in its wake. The attentive interpretive reading practiced in the humanities ought to be an export commodity to other fields and to take its place in the public sphere. 001477634 538__ $$aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. 001477634 546__ $$aIn English. 001477634 5880_ $$aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 03. Jan 2023) 001477634 650_0 $$aHuman rights$$xMoral and ethical aspects. 001477634 650_0 $$aHumanities$$xMoral and ethical aspects. 001477634 650_0 $$aReading$$xMoral and ethical aspects. 001477634 650_4 $$aEducation. 001477634 650_4 $$aLiterary Studies. 001477634 650_4 $$aPhilosophy & Theory. 001477634 650_7 $$aLITERARY CRITICISM / General.$$2bisacsh 001477634 653__ $$aEthics. 001477634 653__ $$aHumanities. 001477634 653__ $$aLaw. 001477634 653__ $$aPhilosophy. 001477634 653__ $$aProfessional Education. 001477634 653__ $$aReading. 001477634 653__ $$aTorture Memos. 001477634 653__ $$ainterpretation. 001477634 653__ $$aliterature. 001477634 655_0 $$aElectronic books 001477634 7001_ $$aBrooks, Peter, $$econtributor.$$4ctb$$4https://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ctb 001477634 7001_ $$aBuckwald, Craig, $$econtributor.$$4ctb$$4https://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ctb 001477634 7001_ $$aButler, Judith, $$econtributor.$$4ctb$$4https://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ctb 001477634 7001_ $$aHexter, Ralph J., $$econtributor.$$4ctb$$4https://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ctb 001477634 7001_ $$aJewett, Hilary, $$econtributor.$$4ctb$$4https://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ctb 001477634 7001_ $$aKahn, Paul W., $$econtributor.$$4ctb$$4https://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ctb 001477634 7001_ $$aLarmore, Charles, $$econtributor.$$4ctb$$4https://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ctb 001477634 7001_ $$aLear, Jonathan, $$econtributor.$$4ctb$$4https://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ctb 001477634 7001_ $$aScarry, Elaine, $$econtributor.$$4ctb$$4https://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ctb 001477634 7001_ $$aWilliams, Patricia J., $$econtributor.$$4ctb$$4https://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ctb 001477634 77308 $$iTitle is part of eBook package:$$dDe Gruyter$$tFordham University Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015$$z9783110729030 001477634 77308 $$iTitle is part of eBook package:$$dDe Gruyter$$tFordham University Press Complete eBook-Package Pre-2014$$z9783111189604 001477634 7760_ $$cprint$$z9780823257058 001477634 852__ $$bebk 001477634 85640 $$3De Gruyter$$uhttps://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780823257089$$zOnline Access 001477634 909CO $$ooai:library.usi.edu:1477634$$pGLOBAL_SET 001477634 912__ $$a978-3-11-072903-0 Fordham University Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015$$c2014$$d2015 001477634 912__ $$a978-3-11-118960-4 Fordham University Press Complete eBook-Package Pre-2014$$b2014 001477634 912__ $$aEBA_BACKALL 001477634 912__ $$aEBA_CL_LT 001477634 912__ $$aEBA_EBACKALL 001477634 912__ $$aEBA_EBKALL 001477634 912__ $$aEBA_ECL_LT 001477634 912__ $$aEBA_EEBKALL 001477634 912__ $$aEBA_ESSHALL 001477634 912__ $$aEBA_PPALL 001477634 912__ $$aEBA_SSHALL 001477634 912__ $$aGBV-deGruyter-alles 001477634 912__ $$aPDA11SSHE 001477634 912__ $$aPDA13ENGE 001477634 912__ $$aPDA17SSHEE 001477634 912__ $$aPDA5EBK 001477634 980__ $$aBIB 001477634 980__ $$aEBOOK 001477634 982__ $$aEbook 001477634 983__ $$aOnline