The tyranny of virtue : identity, the academy, and the hunt for political heresies / Robert Boyers
- Author
- Boyers, Robert
- Uniform Title
- Essays. Selections
- Published
- New York : Scribner, 2019.
- Edition
- First Scribner hardcover edition.
- Physical Description
- xx, 170 pages ; 24 cm
- Contents
- Machine generated contents note: The Academy as Total Cultural Environment -- Correctness & Denial: Willing What Cannot Be Willed -- The Identity Trap -- Hostile & Unsafe: Ideas & the Fear of Diversity -- Policing Disability -- High Anxiety: The Attack on Appropriation -- Junk Thought: The Way We Live Now.
- Summary
- "Written from the perspective of a liberal intellectual who has spent a lifetime as a writer, editor, and college professor, The Tyranny of Virtue is a precise and nuanced insiders look at shifts in American culturemost especially in the American academythat so many people find alarming. Part memoir and part polemic, an anatomy of important and dangerous ideas, and a cri de coeur lamenting the erosion of standard liberal values, Boyerss collection of essays is devoted to such subjects as tolerance, identity, privilege, appropriation, diversity, and ableism that have turned academic life into a minefield. Why, Robert Boyers asks, are a great many liberals, people who should know better, invested in the drawing up of enemies lists and driven by the conviction that on critical issues no dispute may be tolerated? In stories, anecdotes, and character profiles, a public intellectual and longtime professor takes on those in his own progressive cohort who labor in the grip of a poisonous and illiberal fundamentalism. The end result is a finely tuned work of cultural intervention from the front lines." -- inside front book jacket flap.
- Subject(s)
- Genre(s)
- ISBN
- 9781982127183
198212718X
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