Stanley Fish: 71 books
The Revival of Pragmatism
New Essays on Social Thought, Law, and Culture
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 1998
Although long considered the most distinctive American contribution to philosophy, pragmatism—with its problem-solving emphasis and its contingent view of truth—lost popularity in mid-century after the advent of World War II, the horror of the Holocaust, and the dawning of the Cold War. Since...
There's No Such Thing As Free Speech
And It's a Good Thing, Too
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1994
In an era when much of what passes for debate is merely moral posturing--traditional family values versus the cultural elite, free speech versus censorship--or reflexive name-calling--the terms "liberal" and "politically correct," are used with as much dismissive scorn by the right...
Think Again
Contrarian Reflections on Life, Culture, Politics, Religion, Law, and Education
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2015
From 1995 to 2013, Stanley Fish's provocative New York Times columns consistently generated passionate discussion and debate. In Think Again, he has assembled almost one hundred of his best columns into a thematically arranged collection with a substantial new introduction that explains his intention...
The First
How to Think About Hate Speech, Campus Speech, Religious Speech, Fake News, Post-Truth, and Donald Trump
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2019
From celebrated public intellectual and New York Times bestselling author, Stanley Fish, comes an urgent and sharply observed look at one of the most hotly debated issues of our time: freedom of speech.
How does the First Amendment really work? Is it a principle or a value? What is hate speech...
Versions of Academic Freedom
From Professionalism to Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2014
Through his columns in the New York Times and his numerous best-selling books, Stanley Fish has established himself as our foremost public analyst of the fraught intersection of academia and politics. Here Fish for the first time turns his full attention to one of the core concepts of the contemporary...
Versions of Antihumanism
Milton and Others
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2012
Stanley Fish, one of the foremost critics of literature working today, has spent much of his career writing and thinking about Milton. This book brings together his finest published work with brand new material on Milton and on other authors and topics in early modern literature. In his analyses of...
Winning Arguments
What Works and Doesn't Work in Politics, the Bedroom, the Courtroom, and the Classroom
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2016
“Fish mines cultural touchstones from Milton to ‘Married with Children’ to explain how various types of arguments are structured and how that understanding can lead to victory” — New York Times Book Review
A lively and accessible guide to understanding rhetoric by the world class...
How to Write a Sentence
And How to Read One
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2011
“Like a long periodic sentence, this book rumbles along, gathers steam, shifts gears, and packs a wallop.”
—Roy Blount Jr.
“Language lovers will flock to this homage to great writing.”
—Booklist
Outspoken New York Times columnist Stanley Fish offers an entertaining, erudite...
by Stanley Fish
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2008
What should be the role of our institutions of higher education? To promote good moral character? To bring an end to racism, sexism, economic oppression, and other social ills? To foster diversity and democracy and produce responsible citizens? In Save the World On Your Own Time, Stanley Fish argues...
Doing What Comes Naturally
Change, Rhetoric, and the Practice of Theory in Literary & Legal Studies
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 1989
In literary theory, the philosophy of law, and the sociology of knowledge, no issue has been more central to current debate than the status of our interpretations. Do they rest on a ground of rationality or are they subjective impositions of a merely personal point of view? In Doing What Comes Naturally,...
Administering Interpretation
Derrida, Agamben, and the Political Theology of Law
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2019
Features original pieces by an international group of major scholars, including such prominent figures as Stanley Fish and Bernhard Schlink (author of the bestselling novel The Reader, in addition to being a prominent legal scholar).
Mutual Misunderstanding
Scepticism and the Theorizing of Language and Interpretation
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 1992
Do others understand what we say or write? Do we understand them? Theorists of language and interpretation claim to be more concerned with questions about "what" we understand and "how" we understand, rather than with the logically prior question "whether" we understand...
by Stanley Fish, Fredric Jameson, Mary Louise Pratt
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 1991
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 1991
Controversy over what role “the great books” should play in college curricula and questions about who defines “the literary canon” are at the forefront of debates in higher education. The Politics of Liberal Education enters this discussion with a sophisticated defense of educational reform...
Dark Continents
Psychoanalysis and Colonialism
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2003
Sigmund Freud infamously referred to women's sexuality as a “dark continent” for psychoanalysis, drawing on colonial explorer Henry Morton Stanley’s use of the same phrase to refer to Africa. While the problematic universalism of psychoanalysis led theorists to reject its relevance for postcolonial...