Academic Freedom: The Global Challenge - Softcover

 
9789633862339: Academic Freedom: The Global Challenge
Softcover
ISBN 10: 9633862337 ISBN 13: 9789633862339
Publisher: Central European University Press, 2018

Synopsis

Academic freedom - the institutional autonomy of scientific, research and teaching institutions, and the freedom of individual scholars and researchers to pursue controversial research and publish controversial opinions - is a cornerstone of any free society. Today this freedom is under attack from the state in many countries - Russia, Turkey, Venezuela, Hungary, China - but it is also under question from within academe. Bitter disputes have erupted on American campuses, for example, about the limits of free speech and about whether liberal academic freedoms have degenerated into a form of coercive political correctness. Beyond the academy itself, among the general public, academic freedom is contested ground. As Robert Post of Yale Law School has put it, academic freedom is the price the public must pay in return for the social good of advancing knowledge. Populist currents of political opinion are questioning the price a society pays for the freedom of its 'experts' and professors.

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About the Author

Michael Ignatieff served as President and Rector of CEU between 2016 and 2021.He now is a professor in CEU's history department. Ignatieff comes to CEU after serving asEdward R. Murrow Professor of Practice of the Press, Politics, and Public Policy at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government.

Stefan Roch is researcher at the Central European University.

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Publisher
Central European University Press
Publication date
2018
Language
English
ISBN 10 
9633862337
ISBN 13 
9789633862339
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
1
Number of pages
170
Editor
Ignatieff Michael, Roch Stefan