Radical Humility: Essays on Ordinary Acts

Embrace a world in which you are not the center using lessons drawn from philosophy and personal experience.

Introduction by Sarah Buss

as a new way of being in the world

Free Yourself By Choosing the Plain Crackers (Rebekah Modrak)
Escaping the Gravitational Pull of the Self (Jennifer Cole Wright)
Zabeulah's Lesson (Ruth Nicole Brown)

in order to learn and unlearn

Loving Knowledge Together: Socratic Humility (Agnes Callard)
Education is a Space to Change Your Mind (Troy Jollimore)
Trump, Arrogance, and American Democracy (Charles M. Blow)

as an alternative to hierarchy

Reconstructing Humility: From Obedience to Respect (Aaron Ahuvia and Jeremy Wood)
A Library is For You (Jamie Vander Broek)
Humus and the Humble Leader (Kevin Hamilton)

to prevent harm

Dismantling Fortress Medicine with Compassion and Honesty (Richard C. Boothman)
Admitting What You Don't Know is Hard to Do (Eranda Jayawickreme)
Don't Be a Know-it-all: Humility's Role in Important Relationships (Melissa Koenig and Valerie Tiberius)

in the foreground and background

Journalism in an Era of Likes, Follows, and Shares (Lynette Clemetson)
Textual Stealing?: Copyright, Race, and Elusive Justice (Gilbert B. Rodman)
In-Between Spaces (Ami Walsh)

even in moments of Humiliation

The Losers Guide to Winning: New Definitions of Success from Sport's Greatest Failures (Mickey Duzyj)
Epic Failures in 3D Printing (Nadia Danienta and Aric Rindfleisch)
Humility vs. Humiliation in Old Age (Russell Belk)

as possibility

Whiteness is Never Humble, Even When It Is (Tyler Denmead)
My Journey from Tech Sector to Kitchen (Kevin Em)