Save the World on Your Own Time

”[This book] is invariably smart, stimulating, and provocative. It is filled with insights and crackles with verve. It is a joy to take in.” –Texas Law Review”Particularly clear and engaging prose–a far-from-common gift in such a high-powered thinker.” –Rocky Mountain News”Fish’s lively polemic skewers the popular perspective.” –Publishers Weekly”Is deeply committed to teaching and to higher education and relishes presenting his views with zest and wide-ranging scholarship… is a great debater and is ready to scold all who confuse the issues, including faculty, students, trustees, and members of Congress… this work is recommended for public and academic library readers who enjoy a lively interchange.” –Library Journal”Exhilarating, the thought polished and white hot, this book makes the reader think and often wince, especially teachers like me who have aged out of the intellectual into the easy and congenial. A close reading of Save the World should purge much nonsense from classrooms.” –Sam Pickering, author of Letters to a Teacher”Stanley Fish’s new manifesto calls for a major revolution in public education. Many will disagree with this provocative book. None will be wise to ignore its impact.“–Richard A. Epstein, Hoover Institution”This is a passionate defense of ‘Scholarship as a Calling’ like the inspiring lecture of that name by Max Weber. But, of course, Fish is irrepressibly livelier than Max Weber.“–E. D. Hirsch, author of The Knowledge Deficit, and The Schools We Need”In this wise and witty book, Stanley Fish offers thoughtful suggestions for making university teaching more effective and more beneficial for our students. It is a powerful argument for learning and teaching from one of our generation’s most provocative academic leaders.“–John T. Casteen III, President, University of Virginia”Exhilarating, the thought polished and white hot, this book makes the reader think and often wince, especially teachers like me who have aged out of the intellectual into the easy and congenial. A close reading of Save the World should purge much nonsense from classrooms.“–Sam Pickering, author of Letters to a Teacher”Fish offers a vigorous defense of that abstemious understanding of the teacher’s task, laced with numerous examples of its egregious violation.“–First Things: The Journal of Religion, Culture, and Public Life”This is a passionate defense of “Scholarship as a Calling” like the inspiring lecture of that name by Max Weber. But, of course, Fish is irrepressibly livelier than Max Weber.“–E. D. Hirsch, author of The Knowledge Deficit, and The Schools We Need”In this wise and witty book, Stanley Fish offers thoughtful suggestions for making university teaching more effective and more beneficial for our students. It is a powerful argument for learning and teaching from one of our generation’s most provocative academic leaders.“–John T. Casteen III, President, University of Virginia”[This book] is invariably smart, stimulating, and provocative. It is filled with insights and crackles with verve. It is a joy to take in.“–Texas Law Review”Particularly clear and engaging prose–a far-from-common gift in such a high-powered thinker.“–Rocky Mountain News”Fish’s lively polemic skewers the popular perspective.“–Publishers Weekly”Is deeply committed to teaching and to higher education and relishes presenting his views with zest and wide-ranging scholarship… is a great debater and is ready to scold all who confuse the issues, including faculty, students, trustees, and members of Congress… this work is recommended for public and academic library readers who enjoy a lively interchange.“–Library Journal”Exhilarating, the thought polished and white hot, this book makes the reader think and often wince, especially teachers like me who have aged out of the intellectual into the easy and congenial. A close reading of Save the World should purge much nonsense from classrooms.“–Sam Pickering, author of Letters to a Teacher”Stanley Fish’s new manifesto calls for a major revolution in public education. Many will disagree with this provocative book. None will be wise to ignore its impact.“–Richard A. Epstein, Hoover Institution”This is a passionate defense of “Scholarship as a Calling” like the inspiring lecture of that name by Max Weber. But, of course, Fish is irrepressibly livelier than Max Weber.“–E. D. Hirsch, author of The Knowledge Deficit, and The Schools We Need”In this wise and witty book, Stanley Fish offers thoughtful suggestions for making university teaching more effective and more beneficial for our students. It is a powerful argument for learning and teaching from one of our generation’s most provocative academic leaders.“–John T. Casteen III, President, University of Virginia”Exhilarating, the thought polished and white hot, this book makes the reader think and often wince, especially teachers like me who have aged out of the intellectual into the easy and congenial. A close reading of Save the World should purge much nonsense from classrooms.“–Sam Pickering, author of Letters to a Teacher”Fish offers a vigorous defense of that abstemious understanding of the teacher’s task, laced with numerous examples of its egregious violation.“–First Things: The Journal of Religion, Culture, and Public Life”This is a passionate defense of “Scholarship as a Calling” like the inspiring lecture of that name by Max Weber. But, of course, Fish is irrepressibly livelier than Max Weber.“–E. D. Hirsch, author of The Knowledge Deficit, and The Schools We Need”In this wise and witty book, Stanley Fish offers thoughtful suggestions for making university teaching more effective and more beneficial for our students. It is a powerful argument for learning and teaching from one of our generation’s most provocative academic leaders.“–John T. Casteen III, President, University of Virginia”Fish’s book is an especially thought provoking text….“–Sara M, Patterson, Hanover College

Stanley Fish is currently Davidson-Kahn Distinguished University Professor and Professor of Law at Florida International University in Miami and Dean Emeritus at the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, University of Illinois, Chicago. He is the author of ten books–including Is There a Text in this Class–and a frequent contributor to The New York Times, New York Times Book Review, Harper’s, The Atlantic, Esquire, and the Chronicle of Higher Education. Fish writes the “Think Again” blog for the opinion section of the New York Times.