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Academic Tenure and Conservative Philosophy *
Author(s) -
Allison Lincoln
Publication year - 1990
Publication title -
higher education quarterly
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.976
H-Index - 42
eISSN - 1468-2273
pISSN - 0951-5224
DOI - 10.1111/j.1468-2273.1990.tb01524.x
Subject(s) - mainstream , meaning (existential) , politics , sociology , higher education , epistemology , political science , social science , philosophy , law
The purpose of this essay is to investigate the meaning and justifiations of ‘tenure’ for university stanand to relate those justifiations to the mainstream of ideas in political philosophy, with particular emphasis on such ideas as can reasonably be described as ‘conservative’.