Knowledge, power, and academic freedom /

This book presents a series of essays by the historian Joan Wallach Scott that explore the history and theory of academic freedom and the value of critical inquiry today. Scott gives a reflection on the tensions within one of academia's cherished concepts and a defense fo the importance of crit...

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Main Author: Scott, Joan Wallach (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Columbia University Press, [2019]
Series:Wellek Library lecture series at the University of California, Irvine.
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Table of Contents:
  • Academic freedom as an ethical practice
  • Knowledge, power, and academic freedom
  • Civility, affect, and academic freedom
  • Academic freedom and the state
  • On free speech and academic freedom