Description
The Human Project is an issues-based reader, designed to introduce students to the humanities and social sciences. The text attempts to grapple with some of the difficult problems that confront everyone, from questions of our basic human nature, to social change, to politics, to technology, and to arts and culture.
Students are challenged to grapple with issues that don't have easy answers, to develop the higher level thinking skills that such complex questions require, and to acquire a tolerance for the fundamental ambiguities that many of life's basic problems engender.
Table of Contents
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& - indicates new reading written specifically for this text
Introduction
* It’s Open. Who Cares? David McFarlane
One More Time: Our Ongoing Dialogue with Popular Music, Ian Baird
Serious The Human Project 5e — Table of Contents
UNIT 1
Introduction
* Unpleasantness in Vermont, Antonio Damasio
From Biology to Biography: A Brief History of the Self, Wendy O’Brien
* What Will My Future Self Think of Me?, Mark Kingwell
* Darwin’s God, Robin Marantz Henig
The Skin We’re In, Tim Adams
Am I Free or Determined?, Melanie Chaparian
UNIT 2
Introduction
The Economics of Social Change, George Bragues
* What the Internet is doing to Our Brains
* Sweet Smiles, Hard Labour
* Marriage: Then and Now
Marriage is Made in Hell, Laura Kipnis
* Identity Crisis
Can We All Just Get Along?, Greg Narbey
Diversity versus Solidarity — the Progressive Dilemma of 21st Century Politics, Bhikhu Parekh
UNIT 3
Introduction
Politics in the Life of the Individual, Morton Ritts
Soul Force versus Physical Force, Morton Ritts
By Any Means Necessary to Bring About Freedom, Malcolm X
Non-Violent Resistance, Mohandas K. (Mahatma) Gandhi
Jihad vs. McWorld, Benjamin Barber
* America and the World: The Twin Towers as Metaphor, Immanuel Wallerstein
* The Perils of Obedience, Stanley Milgram
&* Never Again? The Problem of Genocide in the 21st Century, Chris Irwin
UNIT 4
Introduction
Making Sense of the Universe, Suzanne Senay
Can Science Be Ethical?, Freeman Dyson
Is Humanity Suicidal? Edward O. Wilson
* On Global Warming: How to Calculate and Live within our Carbon Budget, Tim Flannery
&* Science and Religion: A Complicated History, Mark Cauchi
UNIT 5
Pleasure: The Role of the Arts, Clive Cockerton
&* Looking for Beauty, Clive Cockerton
&* Murderers: An Introduction, Mary Ellen Kappler
* Murderers, Leonard Michaels
* Let Me Make This Perfectly Clear, Gwendolyn MacEwan
* The Back Seat of My Mother’s Car, Julia Copus
* Reflections on Julia Copus’ “The Back Seat of My Mother’s Car”, Richard Sanger
This Be the Verse, Philip Larkin
I Go Back to May 1937, Sharon Olds
The Voice You Hear When You Read Silently, Thomas Lux
* O Me! O Life!, Walt Whitman
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ISBN-10: 0-13-205353-5
ISBN-13: 978-0-13-205353-2
Format: Book
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