The Future of Academic Freedom

By: Louis Menand

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226520056
• ISBN13: 9780226520056
• Release Date: December 1998
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 250 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"