Knowledge, power, and academic freedom /

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Author / Creator:	Scott, Joan Wallach, author.
Imprint:	New York : Columbia University Press, [2019]
Description:	1 online resource (171 pages)
Language:	English
Series:	The Wellek Library Lectures Wellek Library lecture series at the University of California, Irvine.
Subject:	Academic freedom -- United States. Learning and scholarship -- United States. Higher education and state -- United States. Education, Higher -- Aims and objectives -- United States. Academic freedom. Education, Higher -- Aims and objectives. Higher education and state. Learning and scholarship. United States. Electronic books.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12021674

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ISBN:	9780231548939 0231548931 9780231190466 0231190468
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index Description based on online resource, title from digital title page (Ebook Central, viewed on April 30, 2020).
Summary:	This book presents a series of essays by the historian Joan Wallach Scott that explore the history and theory of academic freedom and the value of critical inquiry today. Scott gives a reflection on the tensions within one of academia's cherished concepts and a defense fo the importance of critical scholarship to safeguard democracy against anti-intellectualism.
Other form:	Print version: Scott, Joan Wallach. Knowledge, power, and academic freedom. New York : Columbia University Press, [2019] 9780231190466

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