The New Humanities Reader is the cross-disciplinary anthology for first-year composition that has revolutionized the esteemed writing program at Rutgers University. This text requires students to make connections for themselves as they think, read, and write. Thousands of students who have class tested the "new humanities" approach and many of the readings in this volume, have responded with more reflective and interesting papers.
Designed to help students attain the analytical skills and big-picture overview necessary to become informed citizens, the collection contains challenging and important readings from diverse fields that address critical issues in contemporary society. Ideas and research from wide-ranging sources provide opportunities for students to synthesize materials and come up with their own ideas and solutions. Students will be engaged by reading and rereading, analyzing, and working with these selections because they present powerful ideas, not simply because they are models of good writing style.
- Articles and essays are alphabetically organized by last name of writer to allow instructors maximum flexibility in organization.
- The 32 high-interest selections are drawn from well-known nonfiction trade books, newly published writers, and periodicals, including The New Yorker, Atlantic Monthly, Harper's Magazine, and The New York Times.
- Selections address such significant, global issues as the population explosion, a diminishing water supply, and racial inequities.
- The New Humanities Web Site for students features more information on each author and his or her areas of interest, hot links to related sites, sample student papers, advice on protecting against plagiarism, grading criteria, and more
- The New Humanities Web Site for instructors provides numerous sample assignments and assignment sequences submitted by users of the text, professional issue essays by the authors, essays on how to use text, and more.
Author(s): Richard E. Miller, Kurt Spellmeyer
Edition: 1
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Company
Year: 2002
Language: English
Pages: 721
City: Boston
Front Cover
Contents
Preface
New Humanities for New Times: The Search for Coherence
Knowledge in Depth and Knowledge of the World
Creative Reading: From Explicit to Implicit
Connective Thinking: The Search for a Shared Horizon
Writing to Tell, Writing to See
Developing a Position
The Spirit of the New Humanities
David Abram
The Ecology of Magic: A Personal Introduction to the Inquiry
Lila Abu-Lughod
Honor and Shame
The Education of Girls
Arranged Marriage
Generations
The Dangers of Schooling
Egyptians
Europeans
Piety
A New Order
Marcia Angell
Science in the Courtroom: Opinions Without Evidence
Karen Armstrong
Does God Have a Future?
Benjamin R. Barber
Time, Work, and Leisure in a Civil Society
Jasper Becker
Selections from Hungry Ghosts: Mao's Secret Famine
False Science, False Promises
The Popularization of New Breeds and Seeds
Close Planting
Deep Ploughing
Increased Fertilization
The Innovation of Farm Tools
Improved Field Management
Pest Control
Increased Irrigation
How Many Died?
Jonathan Boyarin
Waiting for a Jew: Marginal Redemption at the Eighth Street Shul
Peter Ho Davies
What You Know
Annie Dillard
The Wreck of Time: Taking Our Century's Measure
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III
IV
V
VI
VII
Ellen Dissanayake
The Core of Art: Making Special
The Extra-Ordinary
Play and Ritual
Differentiating Ordinary from Extra-Ordinary
A Closer Look at Making Special
The Relationship of Making Special and Art
Implications of Making Special
Peter F. Drucker
The Age of Social Transformation
The Social Structure Transformed
The Rise and Fall of the Blue-Collar Workers
The Rise of the Knowledge Worker
The Emerging Knowledge Society
How Knowledges Work
What Is an Employee?
Management in the Knowledge Society
The Social Sector
The School as Society's Center
How Can Government Function?
The Need for Social and Political Innovation
Susan Faludi
The Naked Citadel
Malcolm Gladwell
The Power of Context: Bernie Goetz and the Rise and Fall of New York City Crime
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Jane Goodall
Selections from Through a Window: My Thirty Years with the Chimpanzees of Gombe
The Mind of the Chimpanzee
Bridging the Gap
Stephen Jay Gould
What Does the Dreaded "E" Word Mean, Anyway? A Reverie for the Opening of the
New Hayden Planetarium
Lani Guinier
Second Proms and Second Primaries: The Limits of Majority Rule
The Case of the Majority Vote Run-off
Racial Districting
Proportionality
Stephen S. Hall
Prescription for Profit
Hazel Henderson
Perfecting Democracy's Tools
Democracy's Future: Citizens Want to Set Priorities
Mary Kaldor
Beyond Militarism, Arms Races, and Arms Control
Netforce: Informal or Privatized Armed Forces
The New American Militarism
Neo-Modern Militarism
Protectionforce: Peacekeeping/Peace-Enforcement
Controlling War?
Jon Krakauer
Selections from Into the Wild
The Alaska Interior
The Stampede Trail
Beth Loffreda
Selections from Losing Matt Shepard: Life and Politics in the Aftermath of Anti-Gay Murder
Martha Nussbaum
Women and Cultural Universals
I. A Matter of Survival
II. Anti-Universalist Conversations
III. The Attack on Universalism
Neglect of Historical and Cultural Differences
Neglect of Autonomy
Prejudicial Application
IV. A Conception of the Human Being: The Central Human Capabilities
Central Human Functional Capabilities
V. Capability as Goal
VI. Answering the Objections: Human Functioning and Pluralism
VII. Women and Men: Two Norms or One?
Henry Petroski
Selections from To Engineer Is Human
Being Human
Lessons from Play; Lessons from Life
Michael Pollan
Playing God in the Garden
Planting
Sprouting
Growing
Flowering
Meeting the Beetles
Harvest
Eric Schlosser
Global Realization
Uncle McDonald
At the Circus
McLibel
Back at the Ranch
James C. Scott
Behind the Official Story
Mitchell Stephens
Thinking "Above The Stream": New Philosophies
Alexander Stille
The Ganges' Next Life
Deborah Tannen
The Roots of Debate in Education and the Hope of Dialogue
Roots of the Adversarial Approach to Knowledge
Onward, Christian Soldiers
Sharing Time: Early Training in School
Integrating Women in the Classroom Army
Learning by Fighting
Graduate School as Boot Camp
The Culture of Critique: Attack in the Academy
Believing as Thinking
The Socratic Method - Or Is It?
Knowledge as Warring Camps
Question the Basic Assumption
Consensus Through Dissension?
Who Will Be Left to Lead?
The Cost in Human Spirit
Getting Beyond Dualism
Moving from Debate to Dialogue
Frans de Waal
Selections from The Ape and the Sushi Master
Survival of the Kindest: Of Selfish Genes and Unselfish Dogs
The Spider and the Fly
The Midwife Bat
Depressed Rescue Dogs
Apples and Oranges
Down with Dualism! Two Millennia of Debate About Human Goodness
Westermarck Beats Freud
Bulldog Bites Master
Moral Emotions
The Ke Willow
Jan Willis
Selections from Dreaming Me
Decision Time: A "Piece" or Peace?
This, Too, Is Buddha's Mind
My Great Seal Retreat
Ian Wilmut
Cloning People
Just Another Reproductive Technology?
Are Clones Identical?
Why Clone People?
Cloning to Overcome Infertility
People Engineered
Risk
Acknowledgments
Author and Title Index
Back Cover
