Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Ordinary, Incredulous -- PART ONE. IS THERE AN ETHICS OF READING? -- Poetry, Injury, and the Ethics of Reading -- The Ethics of Reading -- Responses and Discussion -- Kwame Anthony Appiah -- Jonathan Culler -- Derek Attridge -- Discussion -- PART TWO. THE ETHICS OF READING AND THE PROFESSIONS -- The Raw and the Half-Cooked -- Conquering the Obstacles to Kingdom and Fate: The Ethics of Reading and the University Administrator -- Responses and Discussion -- Richard Sennett -- Michael Roth -- William Germano -- Discussion -- PART THREE. THE HUMANITIES AND HUMAN RIGHTS -- The Call of Another's Words -- On Humanities and Human Rights -- Responses and Discussion -- Kim Lane Scheppele -- Didier Fassin -- Discussion -- Concluding Discussion -- Notes -- List of Contributors.