The New Humanities Reader

Front Cover
Contents
Thematic 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
	Web Site
	Acknowledgments
David Abram
	The Ecology of Magic: A Personal Introduction to the Inquiry
Leila Ahmed
	On Becoming an Arab
Andrew J. Bacevich
	The Real World War IV
Jonathan Boyarin
	Waiting for a Jew: Marginal Redemption at the Eighth Street Shul
Bryan Caplan
	\"Market Fundamentalism\" Versus the Religion of Democracy
		The Charge of Market Fundamentalism
		Democratic Fundamentalism
		Will the Real Fundamentalism Please Stand Up? The Case of the Policy Analysis Market
		Private Choice as an Alternative to Democracy and Dictatorship
		Voter Irrationality, Markets, and Democracy
		Correcting Democracy?
		Economics: What Is It Good For?
		Conclusion
Amy Chua
	A World on the Edge
Devra Davis
	Presumed Innocent
		Phones and Our Cells
Annie Dillard
	The Wreck of Time: Taking Our Century\'s Measure
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		Ill
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		VI
		VII
Susan Faludi
	The Naked Citadel
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
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William Greider
	Work Rules
Henry Jenkins
	Why Heather Can Write: Media Literacy
and the Harry Potter Wars
		Hogwarts and All
		Rewriting School
		Defense Against Dark Arts
		Muggles for Harry Potter
		What Would Jesus Do with Harry Potter?
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
Tanya M. Luhrmann
	Metakinesis: How God Becomes Intimate in Contemporary U.S. Christianity
		The Ethnography
		Cognitive/Linguistic Knowledge: The Lexicon
		Cognitive/Linguistic Knowledge: Syntax
		Cognitive/Linguistic Knowledge: Conversation Narrative
		Metakinesis
		Relational Practice
		Discussion
Azar Nafasi
	Selections from Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir
in Books
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Tim O\'Brien
	How to Tell a True War Story
Virginia Postrel
	Surface and Substance
Pietra Rivoli
	Dogs Snarling Together: How Politics Came to Rule the Global Apparel Trade
		Chinese T-Shirts versus American Jobs
		A Taste of the (Crazy) Rules in 2003
		Snarling Together
		Auggie Goes to Washington
		Making Deals and Making Exceptions
		Jobs for Bureaucrats
		Unity 1985 to 1990
		Snarling Back
		Gone On Long Enough
		The Slow Unraveling
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
Rebecca Solnit
	The Solitary Stroller and the City
Sandra Steingraber
	War
Gregory Stock
	The Enhanced and the Unenhanced
		The Enhanced
		Humans and Posthumans: Our Evolutionary Future
		The Tensions of Living Together
		Breeds Apart
		A World Aborning
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
Credits
Author and Title Index
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