"In these lectures, Paul Bov� mounts a persuasive and moving defense of historical humanism against the pressures of authoritarian politics and their unwitting allies in academia on both left and right. In our post-9/11 world he reminds us of the ethical

"Poetry against Torture is a tour de force of the mind from one of the great critical thinkers of our times. A work of extraordinary erudition, it represents criticism at its most ambitious and most responsible. In its call for a radical return to an unde

Paul A. Bov� is Distinguished Professor of English at the University of Pittsburgh and editor of boundary 2, an international journal of literature and culture. Bov� is the author of several books on critical theory, intellectuals, and poetry.