Scott Knowledge, Power, and Academic Freedom

1. Auflage 2019
ISBN: 978-0-231-54893-9
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 181 Seiten

Reihe: The Wellek Library Lectures

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

Autoren/Hrsg.

Scott, Joan Wallach

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Pädagogik Philosophie der Erziehung, Bildungstheorie
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Pädagogik Geschichte der Pädagogik, Richtungen in der Pädagogik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: On the Future of Academic Freedom
1. Academic Freedom as an Ethical Practice
2. Knowledge, Power, and Academic Freedom
3. Civility, Affect, and Academic Freedom
4. Academic Freedom and the State
5. On Free Speech and Academic Freedom
Epilogue: In the Age of Trump, a Chilling Atmosphere—An Interview with Joan Wallach Scott by Bill Moyers
Notes
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Scott Joan Wallach:
Joan Wallach Scott is professor emerita in the School of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. Her books include Only Paradoxes to Offer: French Feminists and the Rights of Man (1996); The Fantasy of Feminist History (2011); Sex and Secularism (2017), and Gender and the Politics of History (Columbia, anniversary edition, 2017).Joan Wallach Scott is professor emerita in the School of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey. Her books include Sex and Secularism (2017) and Gender and the Politics of History (Columbia, thirtieth anniversary edition, 2018). She is a long-standing member of the American Association of University Professors Committee on Academic Freedom and Tenure.