Versions of Academic Freedom: From Professionalism to Revolution

by Stanley Fish

Through his columns in the New York Times and his numerous best-selling books, Stanley Fish has established himself as our foremost public analyst of the fraught intersection of academia and politics. Here Fish for the first time turns his full attention to one of the core concepts of the contemporary academy: academic freedom.

Depending on who's talking, academic freedom is an essential bulwark of democracy, an absurd fig leaf disguising...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 022606431X
• ISBN13: 9780226064314
• Release Date: October 2014
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.8" x 8.6"