Critical views : essays on the humanities and the arts /
Stojkov, Teresa R.
Berkeley, Calif. : Townsend Center for the Humanities ; Distributed by University of California Press,
2011.
Includes bibliographical references.
Identity against culture / Kwame Anthony Appiah -- Getting real : the arts in post-NEA America / Peter Sellars -- Golden ruins/Dark raptures : the literary destruction of Los Angeles / Mike Davis -- The work of art and the historical future / Arthur Danto -- Living in fiction and history / Ivan Klima -- Berlin in autumn : the philosopher in old age / Michael Ignatieff -- The novel in Africa / J.M. Coetzee -- From the beginning to the present, and facing the end : the case ofoOne Japanese writer / Kenzaburo -- Traditions of conversion : Descartes and his demon / Anthony Grafton -- Cannabis, forgetting, and the botany of desire / Michael Pollan -- Dialogues. Grounds for remembering / Maya Lin with Thomas Laqueur, Andrew Barshay, Stephen Greenblatt, and Stanley Saitowitz -- They know everything : children and suffering / Maurice Sendak with Herbert Schreier -- Sounding lines : the art of translating poetry / Seamus Heaney with Robert Hass -- Migrations / Sebastião Salgado with Orville Schell.
Arts.
Humanities.