Critical Views: Essays on the Humanities and the Arts

Published by Fordham University Press 2013

Critical Views

Essays on the Humanities and the Arts

Edited by: Teresa Stojkov

In the series Berkeley Forum in the Humanities

https://doi.org/10.1515/9780823291311

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About this book

This volume of the Townsend Papers in the Humanities commemorates the twenty-fifth year of the Doreen B. Townsend Center for the Humanities at the University of California, Berkeley. As such, the volume is an attempt to capture the breadth and depth of lectures and events presented by the center. Many are revised versions of lectures and presentations organized in connection with the annual appointment of the Avenali Professor in the Humanities at Berkeley (generously funded by Joan and Peter Avenali), or Berkeley’s Una’s Lecturer (endowed in the memory of Una Smith Ross, Class of 1911); several are based on other events presented by the center over the years, such as the “Humanities Perspectives on Aging” program or the “Futures” lecture series organized to commemorate the center’s tenth anniversary. All are the reflection of a public event before a live audience. We have chosen to retain references to the live event where they occur, though space limitations would not permit the inclusion of audience questions.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	1
Table of Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	5
Preface Teresa Stojkov Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	7
Part I: Lectures
Identity Against Culture Kwame Anthony Appiah Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	15
Getting Real: The Arts in Post-NEA America Peter Sellars Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	53
Golden Ruins / Dark Raptures: The Literary Destruction of Los Angeles Mike Davis Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	77
The Work of Art and the Historical Future Arthur Danto Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	99
Living in Fiction and History Ivan Klíma Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	118
Berlin in Autumn: The Philosopher in Old Age Michael Ignatieff Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	136
The Novel in Africa J. M. Coetzee Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	151
From the Beginning to the Present, and Facing the End: The Case of One Japanese Writer Kenzaburō Ōe Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	172
Traditions of Conversion: Descartes and His Demon Anthony Grafton Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	193
Cannabis, Forgetting, and the Botany of Desire Michael Pollan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	221
Part II: Dialogues
Grounds for Remembering Maya Lin, Thomas Laqueur, Andrew Barshay, Stephen Greenblatt and Stanley Saitowitz Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	247
They Know Everything: Children and Suffering Maurice Sendak and Herbert Schreier Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	289
Sounding Lines: The Art of Translating Poetry Seamus Heaney and Robert Hass Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	302
Migrations Sebastião Salgado and Orville Schell Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	321
Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	339
Photo Credits Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	344

Language: English
Publisher: Fordham University Press
Audience: College/higher education;
Pages
- Main content: 346
Illustrations
- Other: 13 Illustrations, black and white

eBook

Published: March 24, 2022
ISBN: 9780823291311