Responses and Discussion
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Description
This chapter presents responses to the discussions in Chapters 2 and 3. For instance, the insistence in Chapter 3 that the ethical relation of reading needs to stand in relation to an author, a person, and not simply to a text brings a measure of dissent from the respondents, each of whom offer reinterpretations of who or what it is that we may feel responsible to in the act of reading. One respondent also dismisses the notion of an ethics of reading as an attempt by literary critics to rescue their work from the charge of nihilism or futility.
Source Publication
The Humanities and Public Life
Source Editors/Authors
Peter Brooks, Hilary Jewett
Publication Date
2014
Recommended Citation
Appiah, Kwame Anthony, "Responses and Discussion" (2014). Faculty Chapters. 114.
https://gretchen.law.nyu.edu/fac-chapt/114
