The Trouble with Principle / / Stanley Fish.

Stanley Fish is an equal opportunity antagonist. A theorist who has taken on theorists, an academician who has riled the academy, a legal scholar and political pundit who has ruffled feathers left and right, Fish here turns with customary gusto to the trouble with principle. Specifically, Fish has a...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Harvard University Press eBook Package Backlist 2000-2013
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Place / Publishing House:Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2001]
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Year of Publication:2001
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (336 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • Prologue: Taking Sides
  • I Politics All the Way Down
  • 1 At the Federalist Society
  • 2 Sauce for the Goose
  • 3 Of an Age and Not for All Time
  • 4 Boutique Multiculturalism
  • II Fish on the First
  • 5 The Rhetoric of Regret
  • 6 Fraught with Death
  • 7 The Dance of Theory
  • III Reasons for the Devout
  • 8 Vicki Frost Objects
  • 9 Mission Impossible
  • 10 A Wolf in Reason’s Clothing
  • 11 Playing Not to Win
  • 12 Why We Can’t All Just Get Along
  • 13 Faith before Reason
  • IV Credo
  • 14 Beliefs about Belief
  • 15 Putting Theory in Its Place
  • 16 Truth and Toilets
  • Epilogue: How the Right Hijacked the Magic Words
  • Notes
  • Acknowledgments
  • Index