Human Goodness

Yi-Fu Tuan

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In Death of a Department Chair, protagonist Miriam Held recounts the events of the previous fall when she was suspected of killing Isabel Vittorio, the chair of her department and her former lover. The controversial and contrary Vittorio was, at the time of her death, attempting to block the hire of a brilliant African American female professor. Already under siege for her attempts to increase diversity on campus, Miriam is forced to defend her reputation and her life. As she searches for the truth, Miriam amasses evidence that leaves few friends and colleagues free from suspicion. Both a classic whodunit and a witty satire, Death of a Department Chair dramatizes how communities can create the very climate of mistrust and paranoia that victimizes them.

Book Details

Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
Publish Date: Mar 25th, 2008
Pages: 248
Language: English
Edition: undefined - undefined
Dimensions: 7.43in - 5.97in - 0.81in - 0.78lb
EAN: 9780299226701
Categories: • Good & Evil• Ethics & Moral Philosophy

About the Author

Tuan, Yi-Fu: -

Yi-Fu Tuan (1930-2022) was the J. K. Wright and Vilas Professor Emeritus of Geography at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and author of twenty-two books, including Morality and Imagination, The Good Life, Romantic Geography, and his autobiography, Who Am I?

Praise for this book

"Yi-Fu Tuan has produced a series of profiles that confirm his core assertion: humanity in the aggregate may be dispiriting, but in certain human lives a goodness prevails that has the power to instruct, inspire, and confound. In time of war, his discussion of physical and moral courage is especially pertinent."--William Howarth, Princeton University, author of Walking with Thoreau

"Yi-Fu Tuan is one of the most remarkable and creative forces in the intellectual life of our time."--Simon Schama, Columbia University, author of Rough Crossings

"In all his work, Yi-Fu Tuan has led us on journeys that have extended our imagination by expanding our spirit. Here he has done so again, but perhaps never so importantly as in Human Goodness. Unfailingly engaging and profound."--Steven Grosby, Clemson University, author of Nationalism: A Very Short Introduction

"Human Goodness is a book of prose. However, its very human themes, especially the segment containing vignettes from daily life, bear similarity with what Gaston Bachelard judged to be a good mark of poetry: It prompts the reader to leave the reading at some point and begin to daydream or remember one's own life experiences." --Edmund V. Bunske, Annals of the Association of American Geographers