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The Future of Academic Freedom (Hardcover, New)
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The Future of Academic Freedom (Hardcover, New)
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At the bottom of every controversy embroiling the university today
- from debates over hate-speech codes to the reorganization of the
academy as a multicultural institution - is the concept of academic
freedom. But academic freedom is almost never mentioned in these
debates. Now nine leading academics consider the problems
confronting the American university in terms of their effect on the
future of academic freedom. Whom and what does academic freedom
protect? Are restrictions on hate speech compatible with the
academic freedom of inquiry? Must academic freedom have
epistemological foundations, or should it be reconceived as an
ethical practice? If the American university is now undergoing a
radical reorganization, both intellectual and economic, what are
the threats to the freedoms of inquiry and expression that
professors and students have traditionally taken for granted? The
essays respond to critics of the university, but they also respond
to one another: Rorty and Haskell argue about the epistemological
foundations of academic freedom; Gates and Sunstein discuss the
legal and educational logic of speech codes. But in the end the
volume achieves an unexpected consensus about the need to
reconceive the concept of academic freedom in order to meet the
threats and risks of the future.
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