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Author(s) -
SCOTT JOAN W.
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
history and theory
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.169
H-Index - 41
eISSN - 1468-2303
pISSN - 0018-2656
DOI - 10.1111/j.1468-2303.2010.00535.x
Subject(s) - disconnection , scholarship , politics , face (sociological concept) , sociology , knowledge production , epistemology , aesthetics , political science , social science , philosophy , law , computer science , knowledge management
The review argues that, while Fish's book is undoubtedly a corrective to the most extreme examples of polemical teaching, it oversimplifies the difficulties academics face in trying to create sharp distinctions between politics and scholarship. The radical disconnection he advocates does not address the most difficult situations in which lines cannot be clearly drawn between the substance of academic research and teaching and the politics of the process of knowledge production itself.