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What is Academic Freedom?: A Century of Debate, 1915–Present

Autor Daniel Gordon
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This book explores the history of the debate about academic freedom, particularly in the classroom. Introducing the origins of the modern research university and the professionalization of the role of the university teacher, it portrays the controversies that arise from the tension between academic freedom and academic professionalism.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780367511715
ISBN-10: 0367511711
Pagini: 178
Ilustrații: 2 Tables, black and white; 1 Halftones, black and white; 1 Illustrations, black and white
Dimensiuni: 178 x 254 x 10 mm
Greutate: 0.44 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom

Public țintă

Postgraduate and Undergraduate

Recenzii

A welcome addition to the rather large library of essays and books on academic freedom, Daniel Gordon’s book departs from the assumption that history is a purifying mechanism in the course of which succeeding generations refine and distil a concept or a program. Gordon offers a much more complex account of academic freedom, telling a multi-faceted story from which ‘academic freedom’ emerges not as a term with a single meaning, but as something of a floating signifier that has meant different things at different times and different things at the same time, depending on social and political circumstances inside and outside of the academy.’ – Stanley Fish, Florida International University, USA
'This is a nuanced account of academic freedom controversies -- from World War I-era disputes over wartime limits on academic expression, to the mid-century debate about whether Communists should be allowed to teach, to the current fracas over BDS and academic boycotts. This book’s combination of strong legal and philosophical analysis with vivid personal profiles (of leading figures such as Arthur Lovejoy, Alexander Meiklejohn, and Angela Davis) makes it an original and thought-provoking contribution to academic freedom studies.' - Nadine Strossen, John Marshall Harlan II Professor of Law, New York Law School, Emerita Former President, American Civil Liberties Union, 1991–2008
'A very smart tour through the people and ideas behind a century of debate over academic freedom.' - Kenneth S. Stern, director of the Bard Center for the Study of Hate and author of 'The Conflict over The Conflict: The Israel/Palestine Campus Debate'
'I thought I was familiar with the history of academic freedom in the United States, but Daniel Gordon's fascinating and lively history taught me that there are complexities within the complexities. I recommend this book for anyone who isn't sure what 'academic freedom' means and has meant-- that is to say, almost everybody.' - Michael Bérubé, Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of Literature, Pennsylvania State University and co-author (with Jennifer Ruth) of 'It's Not Free Speech: Race, Democracy, and the Future of Academic Freedom'
'Daniel Gordon's superb 'What is Academic Freedom?' brings a new level of sophistication to an intensifying debate. At a moment when politicians, activists and even some academics question the ideal of academic freedom, this shrewd and compelling history gives readers a richer understanding of the concept, its past, and its potential future.' John McGreevy, Francis A. McAnaney Professor of History at the University of Notre Dame and author of Catholicism and American Freedom: A History
 

"Gordon (history, Univ. of Massachusetts, Amherst) endeavors to describe the various ways academic freedom has been interpreted over the last century. The author then explores the idea that academic freedom protects political advocacy in education as not just permissible, but necessary. This book has value as a chronicle of the debate regarding the extent to which politics and academia can be separated."
--S. R. Fitzgerald, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Choice

Cuprins

Introduction
Chapter 1. The Firing of Angela Davis
Chapter 2. Absolute Meiklejohn
Chapter 3. Indoctrination: From Lovejoy to Foucault by Way of Black Studies
Chapter 4. Eminent Conversions: 1990s–Present
Chapter 5. Israel, BDS, and Academic Freedom
Chapter 6. In Lieu of a Conclusion: An Unpublished Speech on Academic Freedom by Edward W. Said
 

Notă biografică

Daniel Gordon is a Professor of History at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA and Co-Editor in Chief of the journal Society. He received a Ph.D. in history from the University of Chicago and a Master of the Study of Law degree from the Yale Law School. He is the author of Citizens Without Sovereignty: Equality and Sociability in French Thought, 1670-1789 (Princeton University Press, 1994), the editor of The Anthem Companion to Alexis de Tocqueville (Anthem Press, 2019), and the author of many articles on free speech and religious freedom in France and the United States.

Descriere

This book explores the history of the debate about academic freedom, particularly in the classroom. Introducing the origins of the modern research university and the professionalization of the role of the university teacher, it portrays the controversies that arise from the tension between academic freedom and academic professionalism.