Overview
Written from the perspective of a liberal intellectual who has spent a lifetime as a writer, editor, and college professor, The Tyranny of Virtue is a ācourageous, unsparing, and nuanced to a rare degreeā (Mary Gaitskill) insiderās look at shifts in American cultureāmost especially in the American academyāthat so many people find alarming.
Part memoir and part polemic, Boyersās collection of essays laments the erosion of standard liberal values, and covers such subjects as tolerance, identity, privilege, appropriation, diversity, and ableism that have turned academic life into a minefield. Why, Robert Boyers asks, are a great many liberals, people who should know better, invested in the drawing up of enemies lists and driven by the conviction that on critical issues no dispute may be tolerated? In stories, anecdotes, and character profiles, a public intellectual and longtime professor takes on those in his own progressive cohort who labor in the grip of a poisonous and illiberal fundamentalism. The end result is a finely tuned work of cultural intervention from the front lines.
This book title, The Tyranny of Virtue (Identity, the Academy, and the Hunt for Political Heresies), ISBN: 9781982127190, by Robert Boyers, published by Scribner (November 2, 2021) is available in paperback. Our minimum order quantity is 25 copies. All standard bulk book orders ship FREE in the continental USA and delivered in 4-10 business days.
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