The Future of Academic Freedom

Klappentext Foreword by Linda Ray Pratt1: The Limits of Academic Freedom Louis Menand2: Does Academic Freedom Have Philosophical Presuppositions? Richard Rorty3: Justifying the Rights of Academic Freedom in the Era of "Power/Knowledge" Thomas L. Haskell4: Academic Freedom and Law: Liberalism! Speech Codes! and Related Problems Cass R. Sunstein5: Critical Race Theory and Freedom of Speech Henry Louis Gates! Jr6: Academic Freedom as an Ethical Practice Joan W. Scott7: We Need a New Interpretation of Academic Freedom Ronald Dworkin8: Science and Its Critics Evelyn Fox Keller9: Identity! Authority! and Freedom: The Potentate and the Traveler Edward W. SaidContributors Index Zusammenfassung In this text nine leading academics consider the problems confronting the American university in terms of their effect on the future of academic freedom.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Con la collaborazione di: Louis Menand (Editore), Menand Louis (Editore)
• Autori: Louis Memand, Louis Menand
• Editore: University Of Chicago Press
• Contenuto: Libro
• Forma del prodotto: Tascabile
• Data pubblicazione: 14.01.1999
• Categoria: Libri scolastici > Didattica > Formazione professionale; Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Sociologia > Opere generiche, enciclopedie
• EAN: 9780226520056
• ISBN: 978-0-226-52005-6
• Numero di pagine: 248
• Dimensioni (della confezione): 14.7 x 22.5 x 1.5 cm
• Categorie: USA, Cultural Studies, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Human Rights, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Civil Rights, United States of America, USA, universities, Human rights, civil rights, Higher education, tertiary education, Freedom Of Information & Freedom Of Speech, EDUCATION / Schools / Levels / Higher