Humanities and Public Life
This 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 GTorture MemosG released by the Justice Department a few years ago, presenting arguments that justified…
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- ISBN: 978-0-8232-5708-9
- EAN: 9780823257089
- Produktnummer: 22572862
- Verlag: Fordham University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2014
- Seitenangabe: 172 S.
- Plattform: PDF
- Masse: 1'269 KB
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