There's No Such Thing As Free Speech: And It's a Good Thing, Too - Couverture rigide

Fish, Stanley Eugene

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0195080181 ISBN 13 : 9780195080186

Editeur : Oxford University Press Inc, 1993

Synopsis

A collection of Stanley Fish's most important recent investigations of issues in literary and legal theory, focusing mainly on the "PC" controversy and arguments relating to it.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

In an era when much of what passes for debate is merely moral posturing - traditional family values versus the cultural elite, free speech versus censorship - the terms `liberal' and `politically correct', are used with as much dismissive scorn by the right as `reactionary' and `fascist' are by the left. In There's No Such Thing as Free Speech, Fish takes aim at the ideological gridlock paralyzing academic and political exchange in the nineties. In his witty, accessible dissections of the swirling controversies over multiculturalism, affirmative action, canon revision, hate speech, and legal reform, he takes both the left and the right equally to task. This book is essential reading for anyone with an interest in the outcome of America's cultural wars.

Biographie de l'auteur

Stanley Fish is Arts and Sciences Professor of English and Professor of Law at Duke University. A founder of Reader Response Theory, he is the author of many books, including Surprised by Sin, Self-Consuming Artifacts, Is There a Text in this Class?, and Doing What Comes Naturally.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Oxford University Press Inc
• Date d'édition: 1993
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0195080181
• ISBN 13: 9780195080186
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 344
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: Messaggerie Libri; ufficio.anagrafiche@meli.it; ; Via Verdi, 8; Assago Milano; Italie