The Future of Academic Freedom
Author:   Louis Menand
Publisher:   The University of Chicago Press
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Pages:   250
Publication Date:   15 December 1996
Format:   Hardback
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At the bottom of every controversy embroiling the university today—from debates over hate-speech codes to the reorganization of the academy as a multicultural institution—is the concept of academic freedom. But academic freedom is almost never mentioned in these debates. Now nine leading academics, including Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Edward Said, Richard Rorty, and Joan W. Scott, consider the problems confronting the American University in terms of their effect on the future of academic freedom. ""Louis Menand has assembled The Future of Academic Freedom to better define and delineate what should and should not happen within our colleges and universities. . . . The whole extremely learned yet accessible debate exploits the freedoms it extols, tackling sensitive subjects such as ethnicity and ethics head-on.""—Publishers Weekly ""The essays are not only sharp, elegant and lucid, but extremely well-informed about the history of American battles over academic freedom.""—Alan Ryan, Times Higher Education Supplement ""[A] superb inquiry into some of the most vexing and significant issues in higher education today.""—Zachary Karabell, Boston Book Review

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Author:   Louis Menand
Publisher:   The University of Chicago Press
Imprint:   University of Chicago Press
Dimensions:   Width: 1.60cm , Height: 0.20cm , Length: 2.30cm
Weight:   0.482kg
ISBN:  

9780226520049


ISBN 10:   0226520048
Pages:   250
Publication Date:   15 December 1996
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Out of stock   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

Foreword by Linda Ray Pratt 1: The Limits of Academic Freedom Louis Menand 2: Does Academic Freedom Have Philosophical Presuppositions? Richard Rorty 3: Justifying the Rights of Academic Freedom in the Era of Power/Knowledge Thomas L. Haskell 4: Academic Freedom and Law: Liberalism, Speech Codes, and Related Problems Cass R. Sunstein 5: Critical Race Theory and Freedom of Speech Henry Louis Gates, Jr 6: Academic Freedom as an Ethical Practice Joan W. Scott 7: We Need a New Interpretation of Academic Freedom Ronald Dworkin 8: Science and Its Critics Evelyn Fox Keller 9: Identity, Authority, and Freedom: The Potentate and the Traveler Edward W. Said Contributors Index

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Louis Menand is a staff writer at the New Yorker as well as the Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Professor of English at Harvard University. He is the author of several books, including the Pulitzer-Prize winning The Metaphysical Club.

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