A Book Too Risky to Publish: Free Speech and Universities - Couverture rigide

Flynn, James R.

 
9781680532043: A Book Too Risky to Publish: Free Speech and Universities
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ISBN 10 : 1680532049 ISBN 13 : 9781680532043
Editeur : Academica Press, 2020

Synopsis

Traditionally, our society has broadly agreed that the "good university" should teach the intellectual skills students need to become citizens who are intelligently critical of their own beliefs and of the narratives presented politicians, society, the media, and, indeed, universities themselves. The freedom to debate is essential to the development of critical thought, but on university campuses today free speech is increasingly restricted for fear of causing "offense." In this daring and intrepid book, which was originally withdrawn from publication by another publisher but is now proudly presented by Academica Press, the famous intelligence researcher James R. Flynn presents the underlying factors that have circumscribed the range of ideas now tolerated in our institutions of learning. Flynn studiously examines how universities effectively censor teaching, how social and political activism effectively censors its opponents, and how academics censor themselves and each other. A Book Too Risky To Publish concludes that few universities are now living up to their original mission to promote free inquiry and unfettered critical thought. In an age marred by fake news and ever increasing social and political polarization, this book makes an impassioned argument for a return to critical thought in our institutions of higher education.


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À propos de l?auteur

James Robert Flynn FRSNZ was a New Zealand intelligence researcher. Originally from Washington, D.C. and educated at the University of Chicago, Flynn emigrated to New Zealand in 1963, where he taught political studies at the University of Otago in Dunedin.

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Éditeur
Academica Press
Date d'édition
2020
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1680532049
ISBN 13 
9781680532043
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
280
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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9781680532197: A Book Too Risky to Publish: Free Speech and Universities

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ISBN 10 :  1680532197 ISBN 13 :  9781680532197
Editeur : Academica Press, 2020
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