PC wars

PC wars: politics and theory in the academy

by Williams, Jeffrey

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Title Statements

  • Full title :PC wars : politics and theory in the academy / edited by Jeffrey Williams.

Edition Statements

  • Publication Date:1995.

Publication Statements

  • Publisher(s):Routledge
  • Place of Publication:New York
  • Language:eng
  • Publication Date:1995.

The Physical Object

  • Description:1 online resource (viii, 340 pages .)

Edition Identifiers

  • ISBN:9781136656231, 1136656235
  • oclc:ocn962775027
  • LC Classification:BD175.5.P65
  • Dewey Decimal:378.73

Table of Contents

On 'PC' and related matters / Richard Ohmann -- The Campaign against political correctness: what's really at stake / Joan Wallach Scott -- Truth, justice, and the American way: a response to Joan Wallach Scott / Michael Bérubé -- The Great PC scare: tyrannies of the left, rhetoric of the right / James Neilson -- 'Political correctness': a class issue / Tom Lewis -- What was 'political correctness'? Race, the right, and managerial democracy in the humanities / Christopher Newfield -- The War against theory / Michael Sprinker -- We've done it to ourselves: the critique of truth and the attack on theory / Reed Way Dasenbrock -- Theory against itself: new historicism's return to practice / John S. Howard and James M. Lang -- 'Not theory ... but a sense of theory': the superaddressee and the contexts of Eden / Frank Farmer -- Of safe(r) spaces and 'right' speech: feminist histories, loyalties, theories, and the dangers of critique / Darlene M. Hantzis and Devoney Looser -- Russell Jacoby, antiprofessionalism, and the politics of cultural nostalgia / Barry W. Sarchett -- Othering the academy: professionalism and multiculturalism / Bruce Robbins -- Academics as public intellectuals: reth…

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Subjects

Éducation humaniste -- États-Unis Education intellectuelle -- Etats-Unis Education, Higher -- Philosophy Education, Higher -- Philosophy. -- Uni… Education, Humanistic Education, Humanistic -- United States Enseignement supérieur -- Aspect politi… États-Unis -- Vie intellectuelle -- 197… Filosofische aspecten Hoger onderwijs Political correctness Politieke correctheid Politiquement correct (Mouvement) Sciences humaines -- Étude et enseignem… Théorie (philosophie) THEORY Theory (Philosophy) United States

Writers

Williams, Jeffrey

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