Patriotic Correctness: Academic Freedom and Its Enemies 1317254708, 9781317254706

After 9/11, liberal professors and students faced an onslaught of attacks on their patriotism and academic freedom. In a

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English Pages 280 Year 2015

Patriotic Correctness: Academic Freedom and Its Enemies
1317254708, 9781317254706

These celebrated lectures constitute one of Isaiah Berlin's most concise, accessible, and convincing presentations

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A major new history of one of the seminal years in the postwar world, when rebellion and disaffection broke out on an ex

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Table of contents : Title Page......Page 0 Contents......Page 5 Acknowledgments......Page 7 Introduction......Page 11 Pa

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A landmark defense of democracy that has been hailed as one of the most important books of the twentieth century One of

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An original examination of the intellectual and moral prerequisites of education and dialogue and their role in preventi

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Academic freedom rests on a shared belief that the production of knowledge advances the common good. In an era of educat

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This book presents a series of essays by the renowned historian Joan Wallach Scott that explore the history and theory o

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Among all the great transitions that have marked Western history, only one—the triumph of Christianity—can be called in

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The ideal of academic freedom is the cornerstone of higher education. Increasingly however, state control has encroached

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Covering issues from the resistance in universities to Darwinist thought, to the experience of women and ethnic minoriti

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