Stanley Fish is an equal opportunity antagonist. A theorist who has
taken on theorists, an academician who has riled the academy, a
legal scholar and political pundit who has ruffled feathers left
and right, Fish here turns with customary gusto to the trouble with
principle. Specifically, Fish has a quarrel with "neutral"
principles. The trouble? They operate by sacrificing everything
people care about to their own purity. And they are deployed with
equal highmindedness and equally absurd results by liberals and
conservatives alike.
In this bracing book, Fish argues that there is no realm of
higher order impartiality--no neutral or fair territory on which to
stake a claim--and that those who invoke one are always making a
rhetorical and political gesture. In the end, it is history and
context, the very substance against which a purportedly abstract
principle defines itself, that determines a principle's content and
power. In the course of making this argument, Fish takes up
questions about academic freedom and hate speech, affirmative
action and multiculturalism, the boundaries between church and
state, and much more. Sparing no one, he shows how our notions of
intellectual and religious liberty--cherished by those at both ends
of the political spectrum--are artifacts of the very partisan
politics they supposedly transcend. "The Trouble with Principle"
offers a provocative challenge to the debates of our day that no
intellectually honest citizen can afford to ignore.
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