The humanities and public life

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.

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.