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What is Academic Freedom? - A Century of Debate, 1915-Present (Hardcover)
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What is Academic Freedom? - A Century of Debate, 1915-Present (Hardcover)
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This book explores the history of the debate, from 1915 to the
present, about the meaning of academic freedom, particularly as
concerns political activism on the college campus. The book
introduces readers to the origins of the modern research university
in the United States, the professionalization of the role of the
university teacher, and the rise of alternative conceptions of
academic freedom challenging the professional model and
radicalizing the image of the university. Leading thinkers on the
subject of academic freedom-Arthur Lovejoy, Angela Davis, Alexander
Meiklejohn, Edward W. Said, among others-spring to life. What is
the relationship between freedom of speech and academic freedom?
Should communists be allowed to teach? What constitutes
unacceptable political "indoctrination" in the classroom? What are
the implications for academic freedom of creating Black Studies and
Women's Studies departments? Do academic boycotts, such as those
directed against Israel, violate the spirit of academic freedom?
The book provides the context for these debates. Instead of opining
as a judge, the author discloses the legal, philosophical,
political, and semantic disagreements in each controversy. The book
will appeal to readers across the social sciences and humanities
with interests in scholarly freedom and academic life. The Open
Access version of this book, available at www.taylorfrancis.com,
has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non
Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.
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