Who's Afraid of Academic Freedom? - Couverture souple

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0231168810 ISBN 13 : 9780231168816

Editeur : Columbia University Press, 2016

Synopsis

In these seventeen essays, distinguished senior scholars discuss the conceptual issues surrounding the idea of freedom of inquiry and scrutinize a variety of obstacles to such inquiry that they have encountered in their personal and professional experience. Their discussion of threats to freedom traverses a wide disciplinary and institutional, political and economic range covering specific restrictions linked to speech codes, the interests of donors, institutional review board licensing, political pressure groups, and government policy, as well as phenomena of high generality, such as intellectual orthodoxy, in which coercion is barely visible and often self-imposed.

As the editors say in their introduction: "No freedom can be taken for granted, even in the most well-functioning of formal democracies. Exposing the tendencies that undermine freedom of inquiry and their hidden sources and widespread implications is in itself an exercise in and for democracy."

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Akeel Bilgrami (PhD, Philosophy, Chicago) is Sidney Morgenbesser Professor of Philosophy and faculty member of the Committee on Global Thought at Columbia University. He is the author of Secularism, Identity, and Enchantment (Harvard, 2014) and Self-Knowledge and Resentment (Harvard, 2006), among other titles, and he is the editor of several books, including Who's Afraid of Academic Freedom? (Columbia, 2015) and Beyond the Secular West (Columbia, 2016); he is also the editor of the series Columbia Themes in Philosophy. His interests include philosophy of mind and language, political philosophy, and moral psychology.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Columbia University Press
• Date d'édition: 2016
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0231168810
• ISBN 13: 9780231168816
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 448
• Éditeur: Bilgrami Akeel, Cole Jonathan R.
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible