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News and Articles on Stanley Fish
What Are Intellectuals Good For? Nov 17, 2009
He describes Stanley Fish s mood as about as wistful as the twelve-cylinder engine of his infamous Jaguar, and he imagines Russell Jacoby as a kind of intellectual dentist scouring verbal plaque and conceptual decay with his high-powered electric-sarcastic drill. Advocates of multiculturalism, he observes in another review, including quite a few college presidents, professors, schoolteachers, and principals, are plausibly depicted, largely in their own words, as horses asses. (The American Conservative)
Analysis: What they saw during the Gates arrest Jul 27, 2009
About 1989, hired by Stanley Fish to teach at Duke University in Durham, N.C., "one of the first things Gates did was buy the grandest house in town," Fish wrote in a recent blog on The New York Times' Web site. "During the renovation workers would often take Gates for a servant and ask to be pointed to the house's owner. The drivers of delivery trucks made the same mistake.". (San Francisco Chronicle -- Crime)
Did Hollywood inspire the economic meltdown men? May 14, 2009
Stanley Fish, professor of law at Florida International University and online contributor at The New York Times, called the theory "entirely plausible," citing the long history of people influenced by behavior they observe in works of fiction. "It was reported that a number of young men committed suicide after reading Goethe's 'The Sorrows of Young Werther,"' he told me. (Athens Banner-Herald)
Being upfront Apr 6, 2009
Last year, Stanley Fish used the word on his New York Times blog, writing that certain auto commercials "foreground the sexuality that informs the relationship between the car owner and the object of his/her affection." ... I think anyone reading Stanley Fish would be able to parse the phrase "they foreground the sexuality" on the second try, if not the first. (Boston Globe)
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