Stanley Fish, Author . Harvard/Belknap $35 (640p) ISBN 978-0-674-00465-8
Perhaps more prominent in recent years as a controversial legal theorist (The Trouble with Principle), soldier in the culture wars (There's No Such Thing as Free Speech and It's a Good Thing, Too) and the highest-profile defector from Duke
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Stanley Fish, Author . Oxford Univ. $19.95 (189p) ISBN 978-0-19-536902-1
Fish's lively polemic skewers the popular perspective that universities have an obligation to foster “ethical, social, and political virtues,” arguing that academic institutions are best served by admitting to the distinct (and...
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Stanley Fish, Author Harvard University Press $26.5 (336p) ISBN 978-0-674-91012-6
American democracy rests its freedoms and legal procedures on principles that are impersonal and universal (e.g., freedom, equality). A good idea? No, says Fish. He argues vigorously that universal principles actually impede democracy....
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Stanley Fish, Author Oxford University Press, USA $27.5 (352p) ISBN 978-0-19-508018-6
Head of Duke University's English Department and putative flag-bearer for political correctness, Fish here collects a lively and vigorous sampling of his cultural criticism. Notable are his textured essays written for a series of campus debates with
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Stanley Fish, Harper, $19.99 (176p) ISBN 978-0-06-184054-8
A whole book on the lowly sentence? Stanley Fish, America's English Professor, confides that he belongs "to the tribe of sentence watchers," and shares his passion and learning through an array of examples from sentence-making masters, among them...
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Stanley Fish. Univ. of Chicago, $24 (192p) ISBN 978-0-226-06431-4
In his new treatise, Fish, a columnist for the New York Times and prominent public intellectual, tackles the question of academic freedom with his trademark incisiveness. Aiming to address two central questions—how broadly should we interpret...
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Stanley Fish. Harper, $19.99 (224p) ISBN 978-0-06-222665-5
Legal scholar Fish (Versions of Academic Freedom) provides a practical, thought-provoking guide to improving argument skills. By dividing the book into four mini-guides on politics, domestic matters, law, and academe, Fish ensures that it offers...
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Stanley Fish. One Signal, $26 (212p) ISBN 978-1-9821-1524-1
A bestselling author and humanities professor, Fish (How to Write a Sentence) zeroes in on the First Amendment in this well-constructed analysis, offering his nonpartisan take on what it does and doesn’t protect and what kind of speech it should and
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