The Humanities and Public Life - Brooks, Peter
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Tests the proposition that the humanities can, and at their best do, represent a commitment to ethical reading. This volume brings together a group of distinguished scholars and intellectuals in debate on the public role and importance of the humanities.
Is there an ethics of reading, and is this something that the interpretive humanities can and should to contribute to other professional fields, including law, and to public life?

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Tests the proposition that the humanities can, and at their best do, represent a commitment to ethical reading. This volume brings together a group of distinguished scholars and intellectuals in debate on the public role and importance of the humanities.
Is there an ethics of reading, and is this something that the interpretive humanities can and should to contribute to other professional fields, including law, and to public life?
Autorenporträt
Peter Brooks is Sterling Professor Emeritus of Comparative Literature at Yale University and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Scholar at the University Center for Human Values and the Department of Comparative Literature at Princeton University. Hilary Jewett, Assistant Director of the "Ethics of Reading" project, is a lawyer, literary scholar, and editor.