New Academe Examines the Complexities of the Production of Knowledge

POSTED BY SARAH MINK Spring 2020 | Vol. 106, No. 2 The spring 2020 issue of Academe, inspired by the AAUP’s statement In Defense of Knowledge and Higher Education, examines the complexities—conceptual, critical, structural, and political—of the production of knowledge. Joan W. Scott, professor emerita in the School of Social Science at the Institute for…

In Opposition to Butler’s “Limits on Free Speech”

BY JOHN K. WILSON Judith Butler’s essay, “The Limits on Free Speech,” has attracted a great deal of attention and numerous comments. Because it deserves a more extensive response than I could make in a comment, I wanted to offer this in-depth reply. I think Butler makes two fundamental errors in her analysis. First, she…

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New Academe Examines the Complexities of the Production of Knowledge

In Opposition to Butler’s “Limits on Free Speech”