Critical Views : : Essays on the Humanities and the Arts / / ed. by Teresa Stojkov.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Fordham University Press Complete eBook-Package Pre-2014
• MitwirkendeR: Appiah, Kwame Anthony,; Barshay, Andrew,; Coetzee, J. M.,; Danto, Arthur,; Davis, Mike,; Grafton, Anthony,; Greenblatt, Stephen,; Hass, Robert,; Heaney, Seamus,; Ignatieff, Michael,; Klíma, Ivan,; Laqueur, Thomas,; Lin, Maya,; Pollan, Michael,; Saitowitz, Stanley,; Salgado, Sebastião,; Schell, Orville,; Schreier, Herbert,; Sellars, Peter,; Sendak, Maurice,; Stojkov, Teresa,; Ōe, Kenzaburō,
• HerausgeberIn: Stojkov, Teresa,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : Fordham University Press, , [2022]; ©2013
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Berkeley Forum in the Humanities
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (346 p.) :; 13 Illustrations, black and white

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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Part I: Lectures -- Identity Against Culture -- Getting Real: The Arts in Post-NEA America -- Golden Ruins / Dark Raptures: The Literary Destruction of Los Angeles -- The Work of Art and the Historical Future -- Living in Fiction and History -- Berlin in Autumn: The Philosopher in Old Age -- The Novel in Africa -- From the Beginning to the Present, and Facing the End: The Case of One Japanese Writer -- Traditions of Conversion: Descartes and His Demon -- Cannabis, Forgetting, and the Botany of Desire -- Part II: Dialogues -- Grounds for Remembering -- They Know Everything: Children and Suffering -- Sounding Lines: The Art of Translating Poetry -- Migrations -- Contributors -- Photo Credits