Abstract
Was Hegel a political radical? For a moment he tilted toward the French Revolution, but the German philosopher was no radical. Nevertheless his thought harbored subversive ideas. The point here is an old one, but remains underappreciated. No preestablished harmony exists between the overt political affiliation of a thinker and the content of the thought. A conservative philosopher may nurture politically radical ideas. The reverse is also true—and less noticed. A radical thinker may operate with conservative ideas. Indeed nowadays half the professoriate claims a revolutionary identity. The claim and ownership may diverge, however.
This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.
Access this chapter
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Purchases are for personal use only
Preview
Unable to display preview. Download preview PDF.
Similar content being viewed by others
Notes
Stanley Fish, Professional Correctness: Literary Studies and Political Change (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1999), x.
Stanley Fish, There’s No Such Tning as Free Speech: And It’s a Good Tying, Too (Oxford: Oxrord University Press, 1993), 50.
Stanley Fish, The Trouble with Principle (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1999), 93.
Homi K. Bhabha, “Statement for the Critical Inquiry Symposium,” Critical Inquiry, 30/2 (Winter 2004): 348.
Mary McCarthy, The Groves of Academe [1952] (New York: New American Library 1963), 34.
Michael V. Belok, “Social Atiitudes toward the Professor in Novels,” Journal of Educational Sociology, 34(9) (May 1961): 405.
Stanley Fish, “No Bias, No Merit: The Case against Blind Submission,” PMLA. 103(5) (Oct 1988): 745.
Stanley E. Fish, “Interpreting the Variorum” Critical Inquiry. 2(3) (Spring 1976): 485.
Thomas Biolsi, “Imagined Geographies: Sovereignty, Indigenous Space, and American Indian Struggle,” American Ethnologist, 32(2) (May 2005): 239.
John Law and Annemarie Mol, eds., Complexities: Social Studies of Knowledge Practices (Durham: Duke Universty Press. 2002), 7–8.
William H. Seweil jr., “The Concept(s) of Culture,” in Beyond the Cultural Turn: New Directions in the Study of Society and Culture, ed. Victoria E. Bonnell and Lynn Hunt (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999). 57–58.
Heike Bauer. “‘Not a Translation but a Mutilation’: The Limits of Translation and the Discipline of Sexology” Yale Journal of Criticism, 16(2) (2003): 381–382.
John Henry Newman. The Idea of a university, ed. Frank. M. Turner (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1966). 99.
Editor information
Copyright information
© 2015 Gregory Smulewicz-Zucker and Michael J. Thompson
About this chapter
Cite this chapter
Jacoby, R. (2015). Skimming the Surface: Stanley Fish and the Politics of Self-Promotion. In: Smulewicz-Zucker, G., Thompson, M.J. (eds) Radical Intellectuals and the Subversion of Progressive Politics. Political Philosophy and Public Purpose. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137381606_7
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137381606_7
Publisher Name: Palgrave Macmillan, New York
Print ISBN: 978-1-349-57047-8
Online ISBN: 978-1-137-38160-6
eBook Packages: Palgrave Religion & Philosophy CollectionPhilosophy and Religion (R0)