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The humanities: is everything contextual and contingent?

Mon, 08/26/2013 - 10:25am

In 1996, a hoax perpetrated by NYU physics professor Alan Sokal exposed some of the ideological and professional blinders of academic publishing, particularly in the humanities. This and other examples build an interesting criticism of academic life as construed in the work of writer Stanley Fish in the New Republic: The empirical truth that Fish proffers can hardly be challenged—intellectual life in this country has been highly professionalized…

Open Access Week

Thu, 10/18/2012 - 4:57pm

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