Think Again : Contrarian Reflections on Life, Culture, Politics, Religion, Law, and Education / Stanley Fish.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fish, Stanley Eugene, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Fish, Stanley Eugene.

Intellectuals--United States--Biography.

Intellectuals.

Academic freedom.

Education, Humanistic.

Religion.

Political culture--United States.

Political culture.

Constitutional history--United States.

Constitutional history.

Civilization, Modern.

Criticism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (449 p.)

Place of Publication:

Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2015]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 is the point. Opinions are cheap; you can get them anywhere. Instead of offering just another set of them, Fish analyzes and dissects the arguments put forth by different sides-in debates over free speech, identity politics, the gun lobby, and other hot-button topics-in order to explain how their arguments work or don't work. In short, these are essays that teach you not what to think but how to think more clearly.Brief and accessible yet challenging, these essays provide all the hard-edged intellectual, cultural, and political analysis one expects from Fish. At the same time, the collection includes a number of revealing and even poignant autobiographical essays in which, as Fish says, "readers will learn about my anxieties, my aspirations, my eccentricities, my foibles, my father, and my obsessions-Frank Sinatra, Ted Williams, basketball, and Jews." Reflecting the wide-ranging interests of one of today's leading critics, this is Fish's broadest and most engaging book to date.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Introduction

Part 1. Personal Reflections

Part 2. Aesthetic Reflections

Part 3. Cultural Reflections

Part 4. Reflections on Politics

Part 5. Reflections on the Law

Part 6. Reflections on Religion

Part 7. Reflections on Liberal Arts Education

Part 8. Reflections on Academic Freedom

Acknowledgments

Index

Notes:

Articles originally published in the New York Times between 1995 and 2013.

Pilot project,eBook available to selected US libraries only

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Mai 2019)

ISBN:

9781400873401

1400873401

OCLC:

1132668974