Table of Contents

Foreword by Linda Ray Pratt 1: The Limits of Academic Freedom Louis Menand 2: Does Academic Freedom Have Philosophical Presuppositions? Richard Rorty 3: Justifying the Rights of Academic Freedom in the Era of "Power/Knowledge" Thomas L. Haskell 4: Academic Freedom and Law: Liberalism, Speech Codes, and Related Problems Cass R. Sunstein 5: Critical Race Theory and Freedom of Speech Henry Louis Gates, Jr 6: Academic Freedom as an Ethical Practice Joan W. Scott 7: We Need a New Interpretation of Academic Freedom Ronald Dworkin 8: Science and Its Critics Evelyn Fox Keller 9: Identity, Authority, and Freedom: The Potentate and the Traveler Edward W. Said Contributors Index

About the Author

Louis Menand is a staff writer at the New Yorker as well as the Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Professor of English at Harvard University. He is the author of several books, including the Pulitzer-Prize winning The Metaphysical Club.