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In English
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Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- 1. AGAINST ENGLISH AS IT WAS -- 2. MULTICULTURALISM WITHOUT GUARANTEES -- 3. RELATIVISM, POLITICS, AND ETHICS -- 4. ALWAYS ALREADY CULTURAL STUDIES -- 5. PROGRESSIVE PEDAGOGY WITHOUT APOLOGIES -- 6. CANON FODDER -- 7. HATE SPEECH AND POLITICAL CORRECTNESS -- 8. WHAT HAPPENS WHEN WE PUT THE LEFT AT THE CENTER? -- 9. DICHOTOMY IS WHERE THE MONEY IS -- 10.LATE CAPITALISM ARRIVES ON CAMPUS -- 11. WHAT IS TO BE DONE? -- 12. REACTION AND RESISTANCE AT YALE AND THE MLA -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX -- ABOUT THE AUTHOR
In an age when innovative scholarly work is at an all-time high, the academy itself is being rocked by structural change. Funding is plummeting. Tenure increasingly seems a prospect for only the elite few. Ph.D.'s are going begging for even adjunct work. Into this tumult steps Cary Nelson, with a no- holds-barred account of recent developments in higher education. Eloquent and witty, Manifesto of a Tenured Radical urges academics to apply the theoretical advances of the last twenty years to an analysis of their own practices and standards of behavior. In the process, Nelson offers a devastating critique of current inequities and a detailed proposal for change in the form of A Twelve-Step Program for Academia