Book Description
Remarks of four panelists at a public forum at the annual meeting of the American Council of Learned Societies, held in New York, N.Y., April 23, 1993.
Author : Kathryn Abrams
Publisher :
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 38,31 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Academic freedom
ISBN :
Remarks of four panelists at a public forum at the annual meeting of the American Council of Learned Societies, held in New York, N.Y., April 23, 1993.
Author : Peggie J. Hollingsworth
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 16,54 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780472111794
Lectures given at the University of Michigan from 1991 to 1999.
Author : Patricia Kolaiti
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 153 pages
File Size : 16,97 MB
Release : 2019-01-24
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 110841866X
A radically new view of the interplay between language, literature and mind.
Author : Henry Louis Gates
Publisher :
Page : 18 pages
File Size : 38,74 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Constitutional amendments
ISBN :
Focuses on freedom of speech in American intellectual life. Covers debates on verbal expression and hate-speech bans.
Author : Henry Louis Gates (Jr.)
Publisher :
Page : 18 pages
File Size : 40,48 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Constitutional amendments
ISBN : 9780944026496
Focuses on freedom of speech in American intellectual life. Covers debates on verbal expression and hate-speech bans.
Author : Arthur Meier Schlesinger (Jr.)
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 32,1 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Cultural pluralism)
ISBN : 9780393045802
Examines the lessons of one polyglot country after another tearing itself apart or on the brink of doing so, and points out troubling new evidence that multiculturalism gone awry here in the United States threatens to do the same.
Author : Zena Hitz
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 20,53 MB
Release : 2021-08-24
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0691229198
An invitation to readers from every walk of life to rediscover the impractical splendors of a life of learning In an overloaded, superficial, technological world, in which almost everything and everybody is judged by its usefulness, where can we turn for escape, lasting pleasure, contemplation, or connection to others? While many forms of leisure meet these needs, Zena Hitz writes, few experiences are so fulfilling as the inner life, whether that of a bookworm, an amateur astronomer, a birdwatcher, or someone who takes a deep interest in one of countless other subjects. Drawing on inspiring examples, from Socrates and Augustine to Malcolm X and Elena Ferrante, and from films to Hitz's own experiences as someone who walked away from elite university life in search of greater fulfillment, Lost in Thought is a passionate and timely reminder that a rich life is a life rich in thought. Today, when even the humanities are often defended only for their economic or political usefulness, Hitz says our intellectual lives are valuable not despite but because of their practical uselessness. And while anyone can have an intellectual life, she encourages academics in particular to get back in touch with the desire to learn for its own sake, and calls on universities to return to the person-to-person transmission of the habits of mind and heart that bring out the best in us. Reminding us of who we once were and who we might become, Lost in Thought is a moving account of why renewing our inner lives is fundamental to preserving our humanity.
Author : American Library Association
Publisher :
Page : 16 pages
File Size : 32,35 MB
Release : 1953
Category : Libraries
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Author : Arthur Meier Schlesinger
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 28,6 MB
Release : 1998-09-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0393346021
The New York Times bestseller that reminded us what it means to be an American is more timely than ever in this updated and enlarged edition, including "Schlesinger's Syllabus," an annotated reading list of core books on the American experience. The classic image of the American nation — a melting pot in which differences of race, wealth, religion, and nationality are submerged in democracy — is being replaced by an orthodoxy that celebrates difference and abandons assimilation. While this upsurge in ethnic awareness has had many healthy consequences in a nation shamed by a history of prejudice, the cult of ethnicity, if pressed too far, threatens to fragment American society to a dangerous degree. Two-time Pulitzer Prize winner in history and adviser to the Kennedy and other administrations, Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., is uniquely positioned to wave the caution flag in the race to a politics of identity. Using a broader canvas in this updated and expanded edition, he examines the international dimension and the lessons of one polyglot country after another tearing itself apart or on the brink of doing so: among them the former Yugoslavia, Nigeria, even Canada. Closer to home, he finds troubling new evidence that multiculturalism gone awry here in the United States threatens to do the same. "One of the most devastating and articulate attacks on multiculturalism yet to appear."—Wall Street Journal "A brilliant book . . . we owe Arthur Schlesinger a great debt of gratitude."—C. Vann Woodward, New Republic
Author : David S. Allen
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 45,96 MB
Release : 1995-11
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780814706381
In a society that prides itself on the most expansive legal guarantees of free speech in history, why are so many individuals and groups frustrated by the American system of freedom of expression? As the public sphere continues to be redefined by advances in technology, and new debates about this technology crop up daily, the time has come to move from reflexive discussions about the value of more speech to a detailed assessment of the real power and limits of speech.Why, this volume asks, does the First Amendment--the very document intended to ensure the freedom of U.S. citizens--need to be freed? And from what?Long an icon in American law, politics, and journalism, the First Amendment--and the potential and real dilemmas with which it presents us--have only recently begun to be scrutinized. Challenging the idea that the only champions of free speech are traditional liberal theorists who oppose alternatives to the mainstream interpretation of the First Amendment, the contributors to this volume, among them such prominent thinkers as Frederick Schauer, Owen Fiss, and Cass Sunstein, explore new and provocative ways to think about freedom of expression. By reformulating traditional liberal and libertarian approaches to the First Amendment, this volume convincingly disputes the notion that those who question an unwavering reliance on free- and-open competition between individuals to produce free expression are necessarily enemies of free speech. It argues instead that these alleged enemies can in fact be champions as well.