The Future of Academic Freedom

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The Future of Academic Freedom

Author	: Louis Menand
File Size	: 44,6 Mb
Publisher	: University of Chicago Press
Language	: English
Release Date	: 15 December 1996
ISBN	: 0226520048
Pages	: 258 pages

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The Future of Academic Freedom by Louis Menand Book PDF Summary

But academic freedom is almost never mentioned in these debates. Now nine leading academics consider the problems confronting the American university in terms of their effect on the future of academic freedom. Whom and what does academic freedom protect? Are restrictions on hate speech compatible with the academic freedom of inquiry? Must academic freedom have epistemological foundations, or should it be reconceived as an ethical practice?

The Future of Academic Freedom by Louis Menand

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The Future of Academic Freedom by Louis Menand

The essays respond to critics of the university, but they also respond to one another: Rorty and Haskell argue about the epistemological foundations of academic freedom; Gates and Sunstein discuss the legal and educational logic of speech codes. But in the end the volume achieves an unexpected consensus about the

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The Future of Academic Freedom by Henry Reichman

Few issues are as hotly debated or misunderstood as academic freedom. Reichman's book sheds light on and brings clarity to those debates. Winner of the Eli M. Oboler Memorial Award by the American Library Association Academic freedom—crucial to the health of American higher education—is threatened on many fronts.

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The Future of Academic Freedom by Henry Reichman

The issues Reichman considers—which are the subjects of daily conversation on college and university campuses nationwide as well as in the media—will fascinate general readers, students, and scholars alike.

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It s Not Free Speech by Michael Bérubé,Jennifer Ruth

How far does the idea of academic freedom extend to professors in an era of racial reckoning? The protests of summer 2020, which were ignited by the murder of George Floyd, led to long-overdue reassessments of the legacy of racism and white supremacy in both American academe and cultural life more

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Understanding Academic Freedom by Henry Reichman

"This book offers the first comprehensive introduction to academic freedom, surveying its history and application to research, teaching, and public expression, as well as its treatment in the legal arena and its applicability to students"--

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Academic Freedom Institutional Autonomy and the Future of Democracy by COUNCIL OF EUROPE.

Academic freedom and institutional autonomy are essential for universities to produce the research and teaching necessary to improve society and the human condition. Academic freedom and institutional autonomy are increasingly important components of the development of democracy. At the same time, these fundamental democratic values are subject to pressure in

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Academic Freedom After September 11 by Beshara Doumani

Essays on the challenges to academic freedom posed by post-9/11 political interventions and the growing commercialization of knowledge. Are the attacks on academic freedom after 9/11 a passing storm, or do they represent a structural shift that undermines one of the pillars of democratic societies? This book brings together some of

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