New Humanities Reader

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
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		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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		3
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		5
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
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