04284cam a2200541 i 4500 18102375 BJBSDDR 20260325153326.0 ta 140401s2014 ilu b 001 0 eng c 2014013079 9780226064314 (cloth : alk. paper) 022606431X (cloth : alk. paper) 9780226170251 (e-book) 18102375 ICU/DLC eng rda ICU eng pcc n-us--- KF 4772 F532v 2014 371.1/04 Fish, Stanley Eugene, 1938- 5440 Versions of academic freedom : from professionalism to revolution / Stanley Fish. Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2014. xiii, 163 pages ; 23 cm. text rdacontent unmediated rdamedia volume rdacarrier Rice University Campbell lectures Includes bibliographical references (pages 151-156) and index. Preface Acknowledgments Academic freedom studies: five schools It's just a job school: professionalism, pure and simple For the common good school: academic freedom, shared governance, and democracy Professionalism vs critique: post-Butler debates Academic exceptionalism and public employee law Virtue before professionalism: road to revolution Coda Appendix: Academic freedom, the First Amendment, and Holocaust denial (a talk given by the author at Rice University, April 2012) Works cited Index 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 liberal agendas, or, most often, some in-between muddle that both exaggerates its own importance and misunderstands its actual value to scholarship. Fish enters the fray with his typical clear-eyed, no-nonsense analysis. The crucial question, he says, is located in the phrase "academic freedom" itself: Do you emphasize "academic" or "freedom"? The former, he shows, suggests a limited, professional freedom, while the conception of freedom implied by the latter could expand almost infinitely. Guided by that distinction, Fish analyzes various arguments for the value of academic freedom: Is academic freedom a contribution to society's common good? Does it authorize professors to critique the status quo, both inside and outside the university? Does it license and even require the overturning of all received ideas and policies? Is it an engine of revolution? Are academics inherently different from other professionals? Or is academia just a job, and academic freedom merely a tool for doing that job? No reader of Fish will be surprised by the deftness with which he dismantles weak arguments, corrects misconceptions, and clarifies muddy arguments. And while his conclusion-that academic freedom is simply a tool, an essential one, for doing a job-may surprise, it is unquestionably bracing. Stripping away the mystifications that obscure academic freedom allows its beneficiaries to concentrate on what they should be doing: following their intellectual interests and furthering scholarship United States. Constitution. 1st Amendment Estados Unidos. Constitución. Primera Enmienda 47674 Freedom of speech United States. Libertad de expresión Estados Unidos 5373 Academic freedom United States. Libertad académica Estados Unidos 32299 Intellectual freedom United States. Libertad intelectual Estados Unidos 12770 Civil service United States. Servicio civil Estados Unidos 30382 Rice University Campbell lectures 47695 7 cbc orignew 1 ecip 20 y-gencatlg lcc BK dpf 126595 126595 0 0 lcc 0 0 CS BJB BJB CS 2026-03-16 0 KF 4772 F532v 2014 00000199014 2026-03-16 19:16:00 1 2026-03-16 BK