{"product_id":"save-the-world-on-your-own-time-9780199892976","title":"Save the World on Your Own Time","description":"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? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eSave the World On Your Own Time\u003c\/em\u003e, Stanley Fish argues that, however laudable these goals might be, there is but one proper role for the academe in society: to advance bodies of knowledge and to equip students for doing the same. When teachers offer themselves as moralists, political activists, or\u003cbr\u003eagents of social change rather than as credentialed experts in a particular subject and the methods used to analyze it, they abdicate their true purpose. And yet professors now routinely bring their political views into the classroom and seek to influence the political views of their students. Those\u003cbr\u003ewho do this will often invoke academic freedom, but Fish suggests that academic freedom, correctly understood, is the freedom to do the \u003cem\u003eacademic\u003c\/em\u003e job, not the freedom to do any job that the professor so chooses. Fish insists that a professor's only obligation is to present the material in the\u003cbr\u003esyllabus and introduce students to state-of-the-art methods of analysis. Not to practice politics, but to study it; not to proselytize for or against religious doctrines, but to describe them; not to affirm or condemn Intelligent Design, but to explain what it is and analyze its appeal. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Given that hot-button issues such as Holocaust denial, free speech, and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict are regularly debated in classrooms across the nation, \u003cem\u003eSave the World On Your Own Time\u003c\/em\u003e is certain to spark fresh debate--and to incense both liberals and conservatives alike--about the true\u003cbr\u003epurpose of higher education in America.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Stanley Fish\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford University Press, USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/01\/2012\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 208\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.50lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.10h x 5.40w x 0.70d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780199892976\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eStanley Fish\u003c\/strong\u003e is currently Davidson-Kahn Distinguished University Professor and Professor of Law at Florida International University in Miami and Dean Emeritus at the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, University of Illinois, Chicago. He is the author of ten books--including \u003cem\u003eIs There a Text in\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cem\u003ethis Class\u003c\/em\u003e--and a frequent contributor to \u003cem\u003eThe New York Times, New York Times Book Review, Harper's, The Atlantic, Esquire, Slate\u003c\/em\u003e, and the \u003cem\u003eChronicle of Higher Education\u003c\/em\u003e. Fish writes the Think Again blog for the opinion section of the \u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThis title is not returnable\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Oxford University Press, USA","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":39937668874355,"sku":"9.7802E+12","price":26.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_d4221683-fb00-4a47-a079-8e7a2e0caff5.jpg?v=1647995382","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/save-the-world-on-your-own-time-9780199892976","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}