Doing What Comes Naturally: Change, Rhetoric, and the Practice of Theory in Literary and Legal Studies
by Stanley Fish
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In literary theory, the philosophy of law, and the sociology of knowledge, no issue has been more central to current debate than the status of our interpretations. Do they rest on a ground of rationality or are they subjective impositions of a merely personal point of view? In Doing What Comes Naturally, Stanley Fish refuses the dilemma posed by this question and argues that while we can never separate our judgments from the contexts in which they are made, those judgments are nevertheless show more authoritative and even, in the only way that matters, objective. He thus rejects both the dem show lessTags
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Stanley Fish is Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at the University of Illinois at Chicago
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