: Joan Wallach Scott
: Knowledge, Power, and Academic Freedom
: Columbia University Press
: 9780231548939
: The Wellek Library Lectures
: 1
: CHF 22.20
:
: Pädagogik
: English
: 181
: Wasserzeichen/DRM
: PC/MAC/eReader/Tablet
: PDF
This book presents a series of essays by the renowned historian Joan Wallach Scott that explore the history and theory of academic freedom and the value of critical inquiry today. Scott gives a nuanced reflection on the tensions within one of academia's cherished concepts.

ScottJoan Wallach:

Joan Wallach Scott is professor emerita in the School of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. Her books includeOnly Paradoxes to Offer: French Feminists and the Rights of Man(1996); The Fantasy of Feminist History (2011);Sex and Secularism(2017), andGender and the Politics of History (Columbia, anniversary edition, 2017).Joan Wallach Scott is professor emerita in the School of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey. Her books includeSex and Secularism (2017) andGender and the Politics of History (Columbia, thirtieth anniversary edition, 2018). She is a long-standing member of the American Association of University Professors Committee on Academic Freedom and Tenure.
CONTENTS5
Introduction: On the Future of Academic Freedom9
1. Academic Freedom as an Ethical Practice23
2. Knowledge, Power, and Academic Freedom47
3. Civility, Affect, and Academic Freedom77
4. Academic Freedom and the State103
5. On Free Speech and Academic Freedom119
Epilogue: In the Age of Trump, a Chilling Atmosphere - An Interview with Joan Wallach Scott133
NOTES153
INDEX171