February 8, 2008
The Ethics of Reading
Are humanists to blame for the kind of analysis found in the infamous torture memo?
I've long been invested in the notion that teaching to read literature carefully, seriously, reflectively can be an ethical act. So I was shaken when I recently began the latest book of an author I admire very much, J.M. Coetzee's Diary of a Bad Year (labeled a novel, but much of it a diatribe against America's role in the world), and I came upon a passage on the prosecution of four young American
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