Zealotry and Academic Freedom: A Legal and Historical Perspective

by Neil W. Hamilton and Neil Hamilton

Book Overview

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 fundamentalist academic left in some humanities and social...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0765804182
• ISBN13: 9780765804181
• Release Date: November 1997
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 420 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.9" x 9.0"