Daedalus 143:1 (Winter 2014) - What Humanists Do

Dædalus was founded in 1955 as the Journal of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. It draws on the enormous intellectual capacity of the American Academy, whose members are among the nation's most prominent thinkers in the arts, sciences, and humanities. The theme for the Winter 2014 issue is "What Humanists Do." DonoghueWhat Ought Humanists To Do?J. Hillis MillerPolitics & EternityFrancis Oakley“Half Art”: Baudelaire’s Le Peintre de la vie moderneRachel BowlbyOn Virginia Woolf’s The WavesGillian BeerThe Power of MiddlemarchPatricia Meyer SpacksOn Beckett’s “neither” & Giacometti’s Figurine entre deux boîtes qui sont des maisonsJames OlneyI’m Not ThereRoss PosnockOn Louise Glück’s “Messengers”Henri ColeDido’s Long DyingMichael C. J. America’s Grammar BookKarla FC HollowayHooks Baited with DarknessScott Russell SandersOn Reading & Rereading Freud’s Introductory Lectures on PsychoanalysisSteven Marcus