The tyranny of virtue : identity, the academy, and the hunt for political heresies
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Published
New York : Scribner, 2019.
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Book
Edition
First Scribner hardcover edition.
ISBN
9781982127183, 198212718X
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xx, 170 pages ; 24 cm
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Published
New York : Scribner, 2019.
Edition
First Scribner hardcover edition.
Language
English
ISBN
9781982127183, 198212718X
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Description
"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 insider's look at shifts in American culture--most especially in the American academy--that 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, Boyers's 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.
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Rockaway Township Library - Adult Nonfiction | 179.9 BOY | Available |
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Boyers, R. (2019). The tyranny of virtue: identity, the academy, and the hunt for political heresies (First Scribner hardcover edition.). Scribner.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Boyers, Robert. 2019. The Tyranny of Virtue: Identity, the Academy, and the Hunt for Political Heresies. Scribner.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Boyers, Robert. The Tyranny of Virtue: Identity, the Academy, and the Hunt for Political Heresies Scribner, 2019.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Boyers, Robert. The Tyranny of Virtue: Identity, the Academy, and the Hunt for Political Heresies First Scribner hardcover edition., Scribner, 2019.
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