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PC Wars : Politics and Theory in the Academy
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PC Wars : Politics and Theory in the Academy Paperback - 1994 - 1st Edition

by Jeffrey Williams (Editor)

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  • Title PC Wars : Politics and Theory in the Academy
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition number 1st
  • Edition 1
  • Condition Used - Very Good
  • Pages 348
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Routledge, Florence, Kentucky
  • Date 1994-12-13
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 47749866-20
  • ISBN 9780415910736 / 0415910730
  • Weight 1.21 lbs (0.55 kg)
  • Dimensions 9 x 6.02 x 0.91 in (22.86 x 15.29 x 2.31 cm)
  • Ages 18 to 18 years
  • Grade levels 13 - 13
  • Library of Congress subjects Education, Humanistic - United States, Education, Higher - United States -
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 94-3735
  • Dewey Decimal Code 378.73

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From the publisher

PC Wars: Politics and Theory in the Academy addresses the very issue of political correctness and the current skirmishes in the culture wars. It includes statements from many of our leading contemporary public intellectuals, including Joan Wallach Scott, Michael Brub, Bruce Robbins, Henry Giroux, and Gerald Graff. The collection marks a watershed in the debate about pc in that it presents serious considerations and analyses of the factors, causes, and consequences of the culture wars. Carefully examining the construction of pc, PC Wars analyses political correctness by focusing on the mass media, class politics, and the ideology of managerial democracy. It places the disputes around pc in the context of contemporary developments in critical and cultural theory and the current backlash against theory, manifested in the recent attacks on Marxism, feminism and deconstruction. The book also scrutinizes the undercurrents of anti-intellectualism and anti-professionalism which have tended to create a fertile ground for the pc hysteria. Offering much more than slogans and slinging arrows, PC Wars provides a spirited and critical look at the reaction, ideology, and political forces that have coalesced around the term. Contributors: Michael Brub, Reed Way Dasenbrock, Frank Farmer, Henry Giroux, Gerald Graff, Darlene Hantzis and Devoney Looser, John S. Howard and James M. Lang, Tom Lewis, James Neilson, Christopher Newfield, Richard Ohmann, Burce Robbins, Barry Sarchett, Joan W. Scott, Michael Sprinker, Jeffrey Williams

First line

At first, I thought it would go away.

From the rear cover

The debate around political correctness has been loud, public, and fractious. The skirmishes have been featured everywhere, from Time to The MacNeil / Lehrer News Hour, while the subjects of the attack-the teachers-have been largely pushed off to the sidelines. Out of the uneven terrain comes PC Wars, the first book dedicated to a serious analysis of the PC phenomenon.

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