348 Pages
by
Routledge
348 Pages
by
Routledge
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PC Wars: Politics and Theory in the Academy addresses the very issue of political correctness and the current skirmishes in the culture wars. It includes statements from many of our leading contemporary public intellectuals, including Joan Wallach Scott, Michael Bérubé, Bruce Robbins, Henry Giroux, and Gerald Graff. The collection marks a watershed in the debate about pc in that it... Read more
Chapter 1 Introduction, Jeffrey Williams; Part 1 The Campaign Against PC; Chapter 2 On “PC” and Related Matters, Richard Ohmann; Chapter 3 The Campaign Against Political Correctness, Joan Wallach Scott; Chapter 4 Truth, Justice, and the American Way, Michael Bérubé; Chapter 5 The Great PC Scare, Jim Neilson; Chapter 6 “Political Correctness”, Tom Lewis; Chapter 7 What Was “Political Correctness”?, Christopher Newfield; Part 2 The Trouble with Theory; Chapter 8 The War Against Theory, Michael Sprinker; Chapter 9 We’ve Done It to Ourselves, Reed Way Dasenbrock; Chapter 10 Theory Against Itself, John S. Howard, James M. Lang; Chapter 11 “Not Theory … But a Sense of Theory”, Frank Farmer; Chapter 12 Of Safe(r) Spaces and “Right” Speech, Darlene M. Hantzis, Devoney Looser; Part III Othering the Academy; Chapter 13 Russell Jacoby, Antiprofessionalism, and the Politics of Cultural Nostalgia, Barry W. Sarchett; Chapter 14 Othering the Academy, Bruce Robbins; Chapter 15 Academics as Public Intellectuals, Henry A. Giroux; Chapter 16 A Paradox of the Culture War, Gerald Graff;
Biography
Jeffrey Williams
