Gary A Olson: 3 books
Stanley Fish, America's Enfant Terrible
The Authorized Biography
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2016
One of the twentieth century’s most original and influential literary theorists, Stanley Fish is also known as a fascinatingly atypical, polarizing public intellectual; a loud, cigar-smoking contrarian; and a lightning rod for both the political right and left. The truth and the limitations of this...
Future of Higher Education
Perspectives from America's Academic Leaders
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2015
Written by leading education experts and by university presidents, provosts, and other leaders nationally recognized for their innovations, the 22 original and provocative chapters in this new book comprise a wide-ranging examination of the many challenges faced in fashioning the university of tomorrow....
Politics of Possibility
Encountering the Radical Imagination
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2015
In the probing interviews in this vibrant new book, eminent scholars struggle with some of the most crucial issues facing contemporary intellectuals. Poststructuralist philosopher Judith Butler discusses the pain of rigorous intellectual work, saying that it is necessarily extremely hard labor, as...