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Academic Politics: Fish Style

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , on June 18, 2008 | No Comments »

Stanley Fish is back at it, responding to his critics who believe that if your choice for president is political, then your choice of toilet paper must be too. This is at least his third or fourth foray into the now dog-tired issue, if issue it is, of too many lefties on campus. The match [...]

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Stanley Fish on the Humanities

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged on June 3, 2008 | No Comments »

I don’t know why, but I almost hate to say it: Stanley Fish is right. We in the humanities have no extrinsic worth. We are beyond (or before, or outside) the market. We cannot rationalize our existence outside of academia with a straight face. We need merely bow down and hope that in our supplication [...]

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