1st Edition
What is Academic Freedom? A Century of Debate, 1915–Present
Acknowledgements
List of figures
Introduction
Chapter 1. The Firing of Angela Davis
Chapter 2. Absolute Meiklejohn
Chapter 3. Indoctrination: From Lovejoy to Foucault by Way of Black Studies
Chapter 4. Eminent Conversions: 1990s–Present
Chapter 5. Israel, BDS, and Academic Freedom
Chapter 6. In Lieu of a Conclusion: An Unpublished Speech on Academic Freedom by Edward W. Said
Index
Biography
Daniel Gordon is a Professor of History at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA and Co-Editor in Chief of the journal Society. He received a Ph.D. in history from the University of Chicago and a Master of the Study of Law degree from the Yale Law School. He is the author of Citizens Without Sovereignty: Equality and Sociability in French Thought, 1670-1789 (Princeton University Press, 1994), the editor of The Anthem Companion to Alexis de Tocqueville (Anthem Press, 2019), and the author of many articles on free speech and religious freedom in France and the United States.
"Gordon (history, Univ. of Massachusetts, Amherst) endeavors to describe the various ways academic freedom has been interpreted over the last century. The author then explores the idea that academic freedom protects political advocacy in education as not just permissible, but necessary. This book has value as a chronicle of the debate regarding the extent to which politics and academia can be separated."
--S. R. Fitzgerald, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Choice
