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Think Again: Contrarian Reflections on Life, Culture, Politics, Religion, Law, and Education
Stanley Fish
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Description for Think Again: Contrarian Reflections on Life, Culture, Politics, Religion, Law, and Education
Hardback. Num Pages: 448 pages. BIC Classification: DSA; HPS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 245 x 165 x 35. Weight in Grams: 782.
From 1995 to 2013, Stanley Fish's provocative New York Times columns consistently generated passionate discussion and debate. In Think Again, he has assembled almost one hundred of his best columns into a thematically arranged collection with a substantial new introduction that explains his intention in writing these pieces and offers an analysis of why they provoked so much reaction. Some readers reported being frustrated when they couldn't figure out where Fish, one of America's most influential thinkers, stood on the controversies he addressed in the essays--from atheism and affirmative action to plagiarism and postmodernism. But, as Fish says, that ... Read more
From 1995 to 2013, Stanley Fish's provocative New York Times columns consistently generated passionate discussion and debate. In Think Again, he has assembled almost one hundred of his best columns into a thematically arranged collection with a substantial new introduction that explains his intention in writing these pieces and offers an analysis of why they provoked so much reaction. Some readers reported being frustrated when they couldn't figure out where Fish, one of America's most influential thinkers, stood on the controversies he addressed in the essays--from atheism and affirmative action to plagiarism and postmodernism. But, as Fish says, that ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Weight
781g
Number of Pages
448
Place of Publication
New Jersey, United States
ISBN
9780691167718
SKU
V9780691167718
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About Stanley Fish
Stanley Fish is the author of numerous books, including How to Write a Sentence, There's No Such Thing as Free Speech, and Is There a Text in This Class? His most recent book is Versions of Academic Freedom. He is the Davidson-Kahn Distinguished University Professor and Professor of Law at Florida International University and the Visiting Floersheimer Professor of Law ... Read more
Reviews for Think Again: Contrarian Reflections on Life, Culture, Politics, Religion, Law, and Education
You are not obligated to agree with him and you are not obligated to like him, but if you care about the enlarging necessity of contest in cultural discourse, then you are obligated to read him, not with some magical 'open mind'
Fish has no patience for that concept
but with the full force of the mind you have.
The New Republic ... Read more
Fish has no patience for that concept
but with the full force of the mind you have.
The New Republic ... Read more