Knowledge and Censorship

ISBN-13: 9781403984104 / Angielski / Twarda / 2008 / 177 str.

Ilan Stavans; Veronica Albin

Opis

This volume collects four sharp philosophical essays by Ilan Stavans on the acquisition of knowledge in multi-ethnic environments, the role that dictionaries play in the preservation of memory, the function of libraries in the electronic age, and the uses of censorship. In the second part of the volume, Veronica Albin engages Stavans in a series of four conversations in which he expounds on the arguments he developed in the essays."

Spis treści

Preface * PART I: FOUR ESSAYS ON FREEDOM * The Process Glitch * Wor(l)ds * Stealing Books * Keeping My Mouth Shut * PART II: CONVERSATIONS WITH VERÓNICA ALBIN * Knowledge * Dictionaries * Libraries * Censorship

O autorze

Ilan Stavans is Lewis-Sebring Professorof Latin American and Latino Culture, Amherst College. Verónica Albin is Senior Lecturer of Spanish, Rice University.