... of literature — the side of Socrates least likely to appear in contemporary apologies for the humanities — to bear upon his paradigmatic contribution to the genre of apology. Beginning by remarking the violence of Socrates’s claim that “the unexamined life is not worth living” (the most often quoted line...

... from the ones that were there before? Marquard Smith, David Serlin, and Alphonso Lingis address the eroticization of prosthesis and its bearing on the mundane life of the body. Lingis’s “Physiology of Art,” for example, suggests that the human drive towards...

... to assess environmental and social possibilities in the language of parts per mil- lion of CO 2 , older commitments to the common might no longer be the ones we want or need. Why Energy? We moderns have tended to envision energy as a largely neutral aspect of social life as little more than a dead input...

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..., the classic white flight suburbs in the drained swamps, were represented as well. These admissions seemed to provide unexamined, cryptonorma- tive affirmations of residential segregation. Lightweis-Goff  95 A curious spectacle: concerned New Orleanians...

... prominence is evoked as evidence that women have stormed the academy), in every category of professional life—from salaries to working conditions to promotion—women's status in the profession has not changed that much since the first CSWP report was complied and published in PMLA in 1971. Women...