Humanities and Public Life

Name: Humanities and Public Life
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ISBN: 9780823257058

ISBN-10: 0823257053

ISBN-13: 9780823257058

Edition: 2014

Authors: Peter Brooks, Hilary Jewett

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This volume 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 of us 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 our government…

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List price: $20.00
Copyright year: 2014
Publisher: Fordham University Press
Publication date: 3/1/2014
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 172
Size: 5.98" wide x 9.02" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 1.474
Language: English

Peter Brooks is the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Scholar at Princeton University. He is the author of many works of literary criticism, including "Henry James Goes to Paris" (Princeton), "Reading for the Plot", "Psychoanalysis and Storytelling", and "Troubling Confessions". He is also the author of two novels, "The Emperor's Body" and "World Elsewhere".