CONTENTS

Acknowledgments

Introduction

PETER BROOKS

Ordinary, Incredulous

JUDITH BUTLER

PART ONE.    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

PART TWO.    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

PART THREE.    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