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Peter Brooks (Author) 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 (With) Hilary Jewett, Assistant Director of the Ethics of Reading project, is a lawyer, literary scholar, and editor.
Introduction Peter Brooks Ordinary Incredulous Judith Butler I. Is There an Ethics of Reading? 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 Discussion II. The Ethics of Reading and the Professions 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 Discussion III. The Humanities and Human Rights The Call of Another's Words Jonathan Lear On Humanities and Human Rights Paul W. Kahn Responses and Discussion Kim Lane Scheppele Didier Fassin Discussion Concluding Discussion Notes List of Contributors