THE NEW HUMANITIES READER presents 25 challenging and important essays from diverse fields that address current global issues. This cross-disciplinary anthology helps readers attain the analytical skills necessary to become informed citizens. Ideas and research from wide-ranging sources provide opportunities for students to synthesize materials and formulate their own ideas and solutions. The thought-provoking selections engage students and encourage students to make connections for themselves as they think, read, and write about the events that are likely to shape their lives. The Fourth Edition includes nearly 25% new reading selections, which continue to make this text current, globally oriented, interdisciplinary, and probing.
Author(s): Richard E. Miller, Kurt Spellmeyer
Edition: 4
Publisher: Wadsworth Cengage Learning
Year: 2012
Language: English
Commentary: Missing page 117. Was missing from hard copy.
Pages: 537
City: Boston
Front Cover
Contents
Thematic Contents
Preface
Reading and Writing About the New Humanities
New Humanities for New Times: The Search for Coherence
Knowledge in Depth and Knowledge of the World
Creative Reading I: The Prospective View
Creative Reading II: Interpretation and The Retrospective View
Creative Reading III: Connective Thinking and The Search for a Shared Horizon
Prospective Writing
Developing a Thesis: From Prospective To Retrospective Writing
The Spirit of The New Humanities
Leila Ahmed
On Becoming an Arab
Karen Armstrong
Homo religiosus
Jonathan Boyarin
Waiting for a Jew: Marginal Redemption at the Eighth Street Shul
Nicholas Carr
Is Google Making Us Stupid?
Susan Faludi
The Naked Citadel
Caroline Fraser
Rewilding North America
Pluie
The Trouble with Islands
Rewilding in the Real World
Daniel Gilbert
Immune to Reality
Looking Forward to Looking Backward
Little Triggers
The Intensity Trigger
The Inescapability Trigger
Explaining Away
Onward
Malcolm Gladwell
The Power of Context: Bernie Goetz and the Rise and Fall of New York City Crime
Steven Johnson
The Myth of the Ant Queen
Christine Kenneally
You Have Gestures
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
Azar Nafisi
Selections from Reading Lolita in Tehran
A Memoir in Books
Tim O'Brien
How to Tell a True War Story
Juhani Pallasmaa
Excerpts from The Eyes of the Skin: Architecture and the Senses
Vision and Knowledge
The Significance of the Shadow
Acoustic Intimacy
Silence, Time, and Solitude
Spaces of Scent
The Shape of Touch
The Taste of Stone
Oliver Sacks
The Mind's Eye: What the Blind See
Charles Siebert
An Elephant Crackup?
Peter Singer and Jim Mason
Meat and Milk Factories
The Poop on Pigs
A Pig's Life
"Wayne Bradley," Iowa Pig Producer
Making Bacon
Profitability and Animal Welfare
Tracking Down Jake's Milk
The Beef Industry
Australian Beef
Slaughter
Michael Specter
A Life of Its Own
Martha Stout
When I Woke Up Tuesday Morning, It Was Friday
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
Edward Tenner
Another Look Back, and a Look Ahead
The Ambiguity of Disaster
The Automobile and Revenge Effects
Conservation of Catastrophe?
Retreating from Intensity
Robert Thurman
Wisdom
Preamble: Selflessness
Problem: Misknowledge and Self-Preoccupation
Practice : Trying to Find Your "I"
Jean Twenge
An Army of One: Me
Boomers and Their "Journey" into the Self
The Matter-of-Fact Self-Focus of Generation Me
Changes in Self-Esteem: What the Data Say
The Self-Esteem Curriculum
Girls Are Great
Self-Esteem and Academic Performance
Are Self-Esteem Programs Good or Bad?
Changes in Narcissism
Janine R. Wedel
Confidence Men and Their Flex Lives
Naming the Animal
Evolution of the Species
Beyond Old Boys
Eight Sample Assignment Sequences
Sequence 1
Sequence 2
Sequence 3
Sequence 4
Sequence 5
Sequence 6
Sequence 7
Sequence 8
Credits
Author and Title Index
Back Cover
