Save the World on Your Own Time

by Stanley Fish

Book Overview

What should be the role of our institutions of higher education? To promote good moral character? To bring an end to racism, sexism, economic oppression, and other social ills? To foster diversity and democracy and produce responsible citizens?

In Save the World On Your Own Time, Stanley Fish argues that, however laudable these goals might be, there is but one proper role for the academe in society: to advance bodies of knowledge and to equip...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B00RP5KXAU
• ISBN13: 9780199892976
• Release Date: April 2012
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.4" x 8.1"