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    Is There a Text in This Class? The Authority of Interpretive Communities.Edward Proffitt & Stanley Fish - 1983 - Journal of Aesthetic Education 17 (2):123.
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    There's No Such Thing as Free Speech: And It's a Good Thing, Too.Stanley Eugene Fish - 1994 - Oxford University Press USA.
    In an era when much of what passes for debate is merely moral posturing--traditional family values versus the cultural elite, free speech versus censorship--or reflexive name-calling--the terms "liberal" and "politically correct," are used with as much dismissive scorn by the right as "reactionary" and "fascist" are by the left--Stanley Fish would seem an unlikely lightning rod for controversy. A renowned scholar of Milton, head of the English Department of Duke University, Fish has emerged as a brilliantly original critic of the (...)
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    The trouble with principle.Stanley Fish - 1999 - Cambridge: Harvard University Press.
    In this bracing book, Fish argues that there is no realm of higher order impartiality--no neutral or fair territory on which to stake a claim--and that those ...
  4. Mutual respect as a device of exclusion.Stanley Fish - 1999 - In Stephen Macedo (ed.), Deliberative politics: essays on democracy and disagreement. New York: Oxford University Press. pp. 88--102.
     
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  5. Professor Sokal's Bad Joke.Stanley Fish - unknown
    He had made it all up, he said, and gloated that his "prank" proved that sociologists and humanists who spoke of science as a "social construction" didn't know what they were talking about. Acknowledging the ethical issues raised by his deception, Professor Sokal declared it justified by the importance of the truths he was defending from postmodernist attack: "There is a world; its properties are not merely social constructions; facts and evidence do matter. What sane person would contend otherwise?".
     
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    Versions of Academic Freedom: From Professionalism to Revolution.Stanley Fish - 2014 - University of Chicago Press.
    Stanley Fish argues here for a narrower conception of academic freedom, one that does not grant academics a legal status different from other professionals.
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    With the Compliments of the Author: Reflections on Austin and Derrida.Stanley E. Fish - 1982 - Critical Inquiry 8 (4):693-721.
    In the summer of 1977, as I was preparing to teach Jacques Derrida’s Of Grammatology to a class at the School of Criticism and Theory in Irvine, a card floated out of the text and presented itself for interpretation. It read:WITH THE COMPLIMENTS OF THE AUTHORImmediately I was faced with an interpretive problem not only in the ordinary and everyday sense of having to determine the meaning and the intention of the utterance but in the special sense occasioned by the (...)
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    Interpreting the "Variorum".Stanley E. Fish - 1976 - Critical Inquiry 2 (3):465-485.
    The willows and the hazel copses greenShall now no more be seenFanning their joyous leaves to thy soft lays.[Milton, Lycidas, Ll. 42-44] It is my thesis that the reader is always making sense , and in the case of these lines the sense he makes will involve the assumption of a completed assertion after the word "seen," to wit, the death of Lycidas has so affected the willows and the hazel copses green that, in sympathy, they will wither and die (...)
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    Working on the Chain Gang: Interpretation in the Law and in Literary Criticism.Stanley Fish - 1982 - Critical Inquiry 9 (1):201-216.
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    Doing What Comes Naturally: Change, Rhetoric, and the Practice of Theory in Literary and Legal Studies.Stanley Fish - 1991 - Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 49 (4):375-378.
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    Truth but No Consequences: Why Philosophy Doesn't Matter.Stanley Fish - 2003 - Critical Inquiry 29 (3):389.
  12. Boutique Multiculturalism, or Why Liberals Are Incapable of Thinking about Hate Speech.Stanley Fish - 1997 - Critical Inquiry 23 (2):378-395.
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    Consequences.Stanley Fish - 1985 - Critical Inquiry 11 (3):433-458.
    Nothing I wrote in Is There a Text in This Class? has provoked more opposition or consternation than my claim that the argument of the book has no consequences for the practice of literary criticism.1 To many it seemed counterintuitive to maintain that an argument in theory could leave untouched the practice it considers: After all, isn’t the very point of theory to throw light on or reform or guide practice? In answer to this question, I want to say, first, (...)
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    Theory’s Empire: Reflections on a Vocation for Critical Inquiry.Stanley Fish, Peter Galison, Sander L. Gilman, Miriam Hansen, Harry Harootunian, Fredric Jameson, Jerome McGann, J. Hillis Miller, Robert Morgan & Robert Pippin - 2004 - Critical Inquiry 30 (2):396.
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    Normal Circumstances, Literal Language, Direct Speech Acts, the Ordinary, the Everyday, the Obvious, What Goes without Saying, and Other Special Cases.Stanley E. Fish - 1978 - Critical Inquiry 4 (4):625-644.
    A sentence is never not in a context. We are never not in a situation. A statute is never not read in the light on some purpose. A set of interpretative assumptions is always in force. A sentence that seems to need no interpretation is already the product of one...No sentence is ever apprehended independently of some or other illocutionary force. Illocutionary force is the key term in speech-act theory. It refers to the way an utterance is taken—as an order, (...)
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    Still wrong after all these years.Stanley Fish - 1987 - Law and Philosophy 6 (3):401 - 418.
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  17. Names and terms.Umberto Eco, Gaston Bachelard, Mikhail Mikhaylovich Bakhtin, Georges Bataille, Simone de Beauvoir, Émile Benveniste, Frantz Fanon, Homi Bhabha, Stanley Fish & Maurice Blanchot - 2006 - In Paul Wake & Simon Malpas (eds.), The Routledge Companion to Critical Theory. Routledge.
     
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  18. The intentionalist thesis once more.Stanley Fish - 2011 - In Grant Huscroft & Bradley W. Miller (eds.), The challenge of originalism: theories of constitutional interpretation. New York: Cambridge University Press.
     
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    (1 other version)CriticalPrioritiesSelf-Consuming Artifacts: The Experience of Seventeenth-Century Literature.Leslie Brisman & Stanley Fish - 1974 - Diacritics 4 (2):24.
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    A Reply to John Reichert; Or, How to Stop Worrying and Learn to Love Interpretation.Stanley E. Fish - 1979 - Critical Inquiry 6 (1):173-178.
    I could go on in this way, replying to Reichert's reply, point by point, but the pattern of my replies is already set: he charges that my position entails certain undesirable consequences and flies in the face of some of our most basic intuitions; I labor to show that none of those consequences follow and that our basic intuitions are confirmed rather than denied by what I have to say. This of course is exactly what I was doing in the (...)
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  21. Antonin Scalia, Bernhard Schlink, and Lancelot Andrewes : reading Heller.Stanley Fish - 2019 - In Peter Goodrich & Michel Rosenfeld (eds.), Administering Interpretation: Derrida, Agamben, and the Political Theology of Law. New York, NY: Fordham University Press.
     
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    Facts and Fictions: A Reply to Ralph Rader.Stanley E. Fish - 1975 - Critical Inquiry 1 (4):883-891.
    Ralph Rader's model of literary activity is built up from a theory of intention. A literary work, he believes, embodies a "cognitive act,"1 an act variously characterized as a "positive constructive intention" , "an overall creative intention" . To read a literary work is to perform an answering "act of cognition" , which is in effect the comprehension of this comprehensive intention, the assigning to the work of a "single coherent meaning" . Both acts—the embodying and the assigning —are one-time, (...)
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    Fear of Fish: A Reply to Walter Davis.Stanley Fish - 1984 - Critical Inquiry 10 (4):695-705.
    It may seem that I am simply confirming Davis’ assertion that in my view of the critical process “different interpretive strategies create completely different texts with no point of comparison” ; but the differences are not all that complete. While many readers now see a God who is more dramatically effective than Pope’s “school divine,” they still see a God who exists in a defining relationship with the figure of Satan, a Satan who is himself significantly changed from the energy-bearing (...)
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  24. Hj schnackertz.Stanley Fish - 1995 - Semiotica 105 (3/4):343-346.
     
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    Interpreting "Interpreting the Variorum".Stanley E. Fish - 1976 - Critical Inquiry 3 (1):191-196.
    Together Professor Bush and Mr. Mailloux present a problem in interpretation not unlike those that were the occasion of the paper they criticize: Professor Bush takes the first section of the paper more seriously than I do, and Mr. Mailloux complains that I do not take it seriously enough. In their different ways they seem to miss or slight the playfulness of my performance, the degree to which it is an attempt to be faithful to my admitted unwillingness to come (...)
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    If You Count It, They Will Come.Stanley Fish - 2013 - Humanist Studies and the Digital Age 3 (1):11.
    In this presentation, Dr. Stanley Fish provides a lively and insightful critique of the digital humanities and its methods, goals, and claims. He does this using the framework of approaches to interpretation, i.e., how we decide what a given text means. Looking to constitutional law, Dr. Fish outlines three approaches to interpretation and discusses how digital technologies relate to them.
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    One More Time.Stanley E. Fish - 1980 - Critical Inquiry 6 (4):749-751.
    What I would add, and what Reichert seems unable to see, is that the facts of the text do not identify themselves. He faults Roskill for failing to see that coherence is not a function of the text but of "principles we bring to the text"; yet he himself does not see that the text, insofar as one can point to it, is produced by those same principles. Indeed, Reichert is continually doing the very thing for which he criticizes Roskill, (...)
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    Profession Despise Thyself: Fear and Self-Loathing in Literary Studies.Stanley Fish - 1983 - Critical Inquiry 10 (2):349-364.
    It might seem at this point that I am courting a contradiction: If antiprofessionalism is a form of professional behavior and if professional behavior covers the field , then how can I fault Bate for using antiprofessionalism to further a professional project? By collapsing the distinction between activity that is professionally motivated and activity motivated by a commitment to abstract and general values, have I not deprived myself of a basis for making judgments, since one form of activity would seem (...)
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    Spectacle and Evidence in "Samson Agonistes".Stanley Fish - 1989 - Critical Inquiry 15 (3):556-586.
    When the chorus at the end of Samson Agonistes declares that “all is best,” what it means is that the best of all possible things, the thing everyone in the play most desires, has finally happened: Samson is dead. This is, of course, not quite fair. What the chorus most wants is that things once more be as they were, and its moment of highest joy in the play involves the speculation that a revived Hebrew hero may “now be dealing (...)
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    Think Again: Contrarian Reflections on Life, Culture, Politics, Religion, Law, and Education.Stanley Fish - 2015 - Princeton University Press.
    From 1995 to 2013, Stanley Fish's provocative New York Times columns consistently generated passionate discussion and debate. In Think Again, he has assembled almost one hundred of his best columns into a thematically arranged collection with a substantial new introduction that explains his intention in writing these pieces and offers an analysis of why they provoked so much reaction. Some readers reported being frustrated when they couldn’t figure out where Fish, one of America’s most influential thinkers, stood on the controversies (...)
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    Theory’s Hope.Stanley Fish - 2004 - Critical Inquiry 30 (2):374-378.
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    Take This Job and Do It: Administering the University without an Idea.Stanley Fish - 2005 - Critical Inquiry 31 (2):271.
  33. Subjects/titles.Madhava Prasad, Stanley Fish, Doing What Comes Naturally & Rhetoric Change - forthcoming - Diacritics.
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    Self-Consuming Artifacts.Stanley E. Fish - 1974 - Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 32 (4):572-573.
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  35. Surprised by Sin.Stanley Fish - 2003 - Political Theory 31 (5):720-733.
     
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  36. Why No One's Afraid of Wolfgang Iser. [REVIEW]Stanley Fish - 1981 - Diacritics 11 (1):2.
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    The New Party of Order? Coalition Politics in the AcademyDoing What Comes Naturally: Change, Rhetoric and Theory in Literary and Legal Studies"Us and Them: On the Philosophical Bases of Political Criticism"Contingencies of Value: Alternative Perspectives for Critical Theory. [REVIEW]Madhava Prasad, Stanley Fish, S. P. Mohanty & Barbara Herrnstein Smith - 1992 - Diacritics 22 (1):34.
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    Book review: Professional correctness: Literary studies and political change. [REVIEW]Stanley Eugene Fish - 1996 - Philosophy and Literature 20 (2).
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    Postmodernism, or the Anxiety of Master NarrativesA Poetics of Postmodernism: History, Theory, FictionThe Politics of PostmodernismPostmodernism, or, the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism. [REVIEW]Brian McHale, Linda Hutcheon, Terence Hawkes, Fredric Jameson & Stanley Fish - 1992 - Diacritics 22 (1):17.
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    Fish Shticks: Rhetorical Questions in Stanley Fish's Doing What Comes NaturallyDoing What Comes Naturally: Change, Rhetoric, and the Practice of Theory in Literary and Legal Studies. [REVIEW]John Michael & Stanley Fish - 1990 - Diacritics 20 (2):54.
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    Texts of Limits, the Limits of Texts, and the Containment of Politics in Contemporary Critical Theory"Guest Column. No Bias, No Merit: The Case against Blind Submission.""Troping the Body: Literature and Feminism.""In the Name of the Modern: Feminist Questions D'Apres Gynesis.""Culture and Countermemory: The 'American' Connection."Reading in Detail. [REVIEW]Donald Morton, Stanley Fish, Jefferson Humphries, Alice Jardine, Susan Sheridan, S. P. Mohanty & Naomi Schor - 1990 - Diacritics 20 (1):56.
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