What Snowflakes Get Right: Free Speech, Truth, and Equality on Campus

ISBN-13: 9780190054199 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 216 str.

Ulrich Baer

Recenzje

In a powerful, highly nuanced, and well-reasoned analysis, Baer draws on his experience a multidisciplinary scholar and senior university administrator to cut through conventional slogans and pieties. After thoroughly exposing the contradictions of free speech absolutism, both on the right and on the left, and debunking the political correctness mantra, Baer makes a strong and compelling case for the university inextricably linking free speech to equality as the bedrock of its contemporary mission. Baer's book is an essential contribution to our understanding of the current culture wars over campus speech and to the momentous challenges that it poses to our citizenry.

O autorze

Ulrich Baer was educated at Harvard and Yale and has been awarded John Simon Guggenheim, DAAD, Paul Getty, and Alexander von Humboldt Fellowships. He is University Professor at New York University, and has published, among other books, Remnants of Song: The Experience of Modernity in Charles Baudelaire and Paul Celan, Spectral Evidence: The Photography of Trauma, The Rilke Alphabet, 110 Stories: New York Writes After September 11(editor), Beggar's Chicken: Stories from Shanghai, We Are But a Moment, and, as editor and translator, The Dark Interval: Rilke's Letters on Loss, Grief and Transformation, and Rainer Maria Rilke: Letters on Life (Modern Library). His podcast, Think About It, is devoted to in-depth conversations on powerful ideas, including freedom of speech, and language that changes the world. He lives in New York City.