1st Edition
Zealotry and Academic Freedom A Legal and Historical Perspective
By Neil Hamilton
Copyright 1995
420 Pages
by
Routledge
420 Pages
by
Routledge
420 Pages
by
Routledge
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Zealotry and Academic Freedom began with the author's personal experience with suppression of academic speech and obstacles to the pursuit of academic quality. Using his own tumultuous experience as a starting point, Hamilton explores how significant efforts to create an autonomous space for academic speech within the university over the past 125 years have been thwarted.Hamilton charges that a... Read more
Introduction; Zealotry in American Higher Education; 1: Six Waves of Zealotry from 1870-1970; 2: Fundamentalism of the Radical Academic Left in the Late 1980s and Early 1990s; 3: Similarities in the Waves of Zealotry; The Meaning of Academic Freedom; 4: Protection for Freedom of Expression for the Individual Scholar Employed in Higher Education—Professional Academic Freedom; 5: Protection for the Core Academic Affairs of Higher Education from Interference by the State—Constitutional Academic Freedom; 6: Protection for Freedom of Speech of Professors as Employees in the Public and Private Workplace; 7: The Prudential Doctrine of Academic Abstention in Judicial Review of Academic Decisions; 8: Where the Theory of Professional Academic Freedom Fails; Buttressing the Defense of Academic Freedom; 9: Faculty Neglect of the Correlative Duties of Professional Academic Freedom; 10: The Outer Limits of Professional Academic Freedom for the Faculty Zealot; 11: Effective Responses by the Target of Zealotry; 12: The Wavering Flame of Academic Freedom
Biography
Neil Hamilton
