The future of academic freedom / edited by Louis Menand.

Other author Menand, Louis.
Format Book
Publication InfoChicago : University of Chicago Press, 1996.
Descriptionix, 239 pages ; 24 cm
Subjects
Academic freedom--United States.
College teaching--United States. --Philosophy.
Education, Higher--Aims and objectives. --United States.

Contents pt. 1. What does academic freedom protect?: The limits of academic freedom / Louis Menand. Does academic freedom have philosophical presuppositions? / Richard Rorty. Justifying the rights of academic freedom in the era of "power/knowledge" / Thomas L. Haskell -- pt. 2. The problem of hate speech: Academic freedom and law, liberalism, speech codes, and related problems / Cass R. Sunstein. Critical race theory and freedom of speech / Henry Louis Gates Jr. -- pt. 3. The ethics of inquiry: Academic freedom as an ethical practice / Joan W. Scott. We need a new interpretation of academic freedom / Ronald Dworkin. Science and its critics / Evelyn Fox Keller. Identity, authority, and freedom, the potentate and the traveler / Edward W. Said.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 96008510
ISBN0226520048 (cloth : alk. paper)

Availability

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Joyner General Stacks LC72.2 .F88 1996 ✔ Available Place Hold