Tanner Lectures on Human Values
vol.23
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on, and Stroud
Edited by Greth B. Peterson
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ISBN 978-0-87480-718-9
The Tanner Lectures on Human Values, founded July 1, 1978, at Clare Hall, Cambridge University, was established by the American scholar, industrialist, and philanthropist Obert Clark Tanner. Lectureships are awarded to outstanding scholars or leaders in broadly defined fields of human values, and transcend ethnic, national, religious, or ideological distinctions.
From Dorothy Allison, “Mean Stories and Stubborn Girls”: “My life would be easier if everyone I met had published a memoir. It would explain all the things that get left unspoken. Best of all would be if people wore those patches Samuel Delaney invented for one of his novels--little panels that bluntly detailed genetic and social background in easily readable lines of code. Instead, I have to figure people out by close observation and dogged patience. All too often I get it wrong. I took me years to get the mean story behind that college professor’s suit, to learn just how much like me she was, and how it was she had lost her younger sister.”
CONTENTS AND CONTRIBUTORS:
Dorothy Allison, California Mean Stories and Stubborn Girls, and What It Means to be Free
K. Anthony Appiah, Harvard, Individuality and Identity
Partha Dasgupta, Cambridge, Valuing Objects and Evaluating Policies in Imperfect Economies
Sarah Blaffer Hrdy, UC Davis, The Past and Present of the Human Family
Sir Sydney Kentridge, London, Human Rights: A Sense of Proportion
Alexander Nehamas, Princeton, A Promise of Happiness: The Place of Beauty in a World of Art
Robert Pinsky, Boston, American Culture and the Voice of Poetry
Joseph Raz, Columbia, The Practice of Value
William C. Richardson, Kellogg Foundation, Michigan, Reconceiving Health Care to Improve Quality
Grethe Peterson is director of the Tanner Lectures on Human Values. She lives in Park City, Utah.
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