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The Future of Academic Freedom Book

The issue of academic freedom and its centrality to the debates raging on campuses today is the focus of these essays by a weighty assemblage of academics. Ronald Dworkin, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Louis Menand, and Edward W. Said and others grapple with the issues of campus speech codes, the limits of academic freedom, and the ethics of academics. The various authors can be commended for bringing a lot of factual material into the discussion, and for giving substance to their arguments.Read More

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    At the bottom of every controversy embroiling the university todayâ??from debates over hate-speech codes to the reorganization of the academy as a multicultural institutionâ??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."â??Publishers Weekly

    "The essays are not only sharp, elegant and lucid, but extremely well-informed about the history of American battles over academic freedom."â??Alan Ryan, Times Higher Education Supplement

    "[A] superb inquiry into some of the most vexing and significant issues in higher education today."â??Zachary Karabell, Boston Book Review

  • 0226520056
  • 9780226520056
  • L Menand
  • 14 January 1999
  • Chicago University Press
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 250
  • 2nd
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