The Future of Academic Freedom

Name: The Future of Academic Freedom
Brand: The University of Chicago Press

The University of Chicago Press

The Future of Academic FreedomAuthor(s): Louis Menand\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: The University of Chicago Press, United States\nImprint: University of Chicago Press\nISBN-13: 9780226520049, 978-0226520049\nSynopsis\nIn this text nine leading academics consider the problems confronting the American university in terms of their effect on the future of academic freedom. Whom and what does academic freedom protect? Are restrictions on free speech compatible with the academic freedom of inquiry? Must academic freedom have epistemological foundations, or should it be reconceived as an ethical practice? These and other such questions are discussed and debated throughout the volume.