Think Again: Contrarian Reflections on Life, Culture, Politics, Religion, Law, and Education

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From 1995 to 2013, Stanley Fish's provocative New York Times columns consistently generated passionate discussion and debate. In Think Again, he has assembled almost one hundred of his best columns into a thematically arranged collection with a substantial new introduction that explains his intention in writing these pieces and offers an analysis o

Stanley Fish is the author of numerous books, including How to Write a Sentence, There's No Such Thing as Free Speech, and Is There a Text in This Class? His most recent book is Versions of Academic Freedom. He is the Davidson-Kahn Distinguished University Professor and Professor of Law at Florida International University and the Visiting Floersheimer Professor of Law at Cardozo Law School. He previously taught at Berkeley, Johns Hopkins, Duke, and the University of Illinois, Chicago.

"You are not obligated to agree with him and you are not obligated to like him, but if you care about the enlarging necessity of contest in cultural discourse, then you are obligated to read him, not with some magical 'open mind'--Fish has no patience for that concept--but with the full force of the mind you have."--The New Republic "Stanley Fish makes you think. No matter what you thought, or thought you thought, on a given subject--Israel, academia, pickup basketball, American law--Fish will flip it and spin it and dip it and turn it around for you. (And he can be a terrific comedian to boot.) A brilliant book."--Mark Edmundson, author of Why Read? "Lucid, sinewy sentences lash, tickle, and caress."--Kirkus(Starred Review) "[Fish] covers so much ground so thoughtfully. Whether he is writing about French theory, religion, poetry, law, liberal education, or politics in upstate New York--where he tries hard to be just an ordinary guy (in his country home--Fish is both stimulating and precise."--The Chronicle of Higher Education "Engaging, provocative, maddening, humorous, and insightful."--Arts Fuse "Think Again is a memorable achievement, offering a standard of argument rarely published in media."--The Australian "Stimulating."--The Weekly Standard "We are rarely in doubt about what Fish intends; there is small danger of his ever saying nothing; and his thoughts continually encourage us to think again as the implications of what he has written expand variously."--Brooke Horvath, Rain Taxi