Knowledge, power, and academic freedom / Joan Wallach Scott
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TextSeries: Wellek Library lecture series at the University of California, IrvinePublisher: New York : Columbia University Press, [2019]Description: 1 online resource (171 pages)Content type: - text
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- online resource
- 9780231548939
- 0231548931
- Academic freedom -- United States
- Learning and scholarship -- United States
- Higher education and state -- United States
- Education, Higher -- Aims and objectives -- United States
- Liberté de l'enseignement -- États-Unis
- Savoir et érudition -- États-Unis
- Enseignement supérieur -- Politique gouvernementale -- États-Unis
- Enseignement supérieur -- Finalités -- États-Unis
- EDUCATION -- History
- Academic freedom
- Education, Higher -- Aims and objectives
- Higher education and state
- Learning and scholarship
- United States
- 378.1/213 23
- LC72.2 .S38 2019eb
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Online resource, title from digital title page (Ebook Central, viewed on April 30, 2020).
Includes bibliographical references and index
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
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 critical scholarship to safeguard democracy against anti-intellectualism.
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