Research Catalog

Title

The trouble with principle / Stanley Fish.

Author

Fish, Stanley Eugene

Publication

Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1999.

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Description

vi, 328 p.; 25 cm.

Summary

The author explains that history and context determine a principle's content and power and that "intellectual and religious liberty ... are artifacts of the very partisan politics they supposedly transcend."--Jacket.

Subject

• Principle (Philosophy)
• Political science > Philosophy
• Law > Political aspects

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 313-324) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Prologue: Taking Sides -- Politics All the Way Down -- At the Federalist Society -- Sauce for the Goose -- Of an Age and Not for All Time -- Boutique Multiculturalism -- Fish on the First -- The Rhetoric of Regret -- Fraught with Death -- The Dance of Theory -- Reasons for the Devout -- Vicki Frost Objects -- Mission Impossible -- A Wolf in Reason's Clothing -- Playing Not to Win -- Why We Can't All Just Get Along -- Faith before Reason -- Credo -- Beliefs about Belief -- Putting Theory in Its Place -- Truth and Toilets -- Epilogue: How the Right Hijacked the Magic Words.

ISBN

0674910125 (alk. paper)

LCCN

^^^99035759^

OCLC

• 41662503
• SCSB-10086767

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library