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The trouble with principle / Stanley Fish.
- Title
- The trouble with principle / Stanley Fish.
- Author
- Fish, Stanley Eugene
- Publication
- Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1999.
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Text | Request in advance | B105.P7 F57 1999 | Off-site |
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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
- 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