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020			_a9781982127190 _q(paperback)
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035			_a(OCoLC)1291216496
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100	1		_aBoyers, Robert, _eauthor.
240	1	0	_aEssays. _kSelections. _f2021.
245	1	4	_aThe tyranny of virtue : _bidentity, the academy, and the hunt for political heresies / _cRobert Boyers.
250			_aFirst Scribner trade paperback edition.
264		1	_aNew York : _bScribner, _c2021.
264		4	_c©2019
300			_axxii, 178 pages ; _c21 cm
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
520			_a"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 "courageous, unsparing, and nuanced to a rare degree" (Mary Gaitskill) insider's look at shifts in American culture--most especially in the American academy--that so many people find alarming. Part memoir and part polemic, Boyers' 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."-- _cProvided by publisher.
505	0	0	_gPreface -- _tPrivilege for beginners -- _tThe academy as total cultural environment -- _tCorrectness & denial : willing what cannot be willed -- _tThe identity trap -- _tHostile & unsafe : ideas & the fear of diversity -- _tPolicing disability -- _tHigh anxiety : the attack on appropriation -- _tJunk thought : the way we live now -- _tEpilogue : what is to be done?
650		0	_aToleration. _983262
650		0	_aPolitical correctness. _935655
650		0	_aIdentity politics. _9374779
650		0	_aLiberalism. _9108869
650		0	_aEducation, Higher _zUnited States. _9166121
655		7	_aEssays. _2lcgft _95184
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