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	Stanley Fish Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Stanley Fish (born 1938) is a prominent literary theorist.
		Fish concludes that culture fills our minds with assumptions and beliefs that are not only similar, but "alike in fine detail," and, because of this, individual originality and creativity are convenient fictions of our time.
		Fish has written extensively on the politics of the university, having taken positions justifying campus speech codes and criticizing political statements by universities or faculty bodies on matters outside their professional areas of expertise.
	www.biographybase.com /biography/Fish_Stanley.html (534 words)

	Stanley Fish - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Stanley Fish (born 1938) is a prominent American literary theorist and legal scholar.
		Fish's work in this field examines how the interpretation of a text is dependent upon each reader's own subjective experience in one or more communities, each of which are defined as a 'community' by a distinct epistemology.
		Fish has lectured across the country at many universities and colleges including Brown University, Harvard University, Columbia University, the University of Georgia, the University of Louisville, the University of Kentucky, and Bates College, recently.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Stanley_Fish (1030 words)

	One fishy argument - Salon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Fish is being disingenuous about the debased state to which the university, like his hero in "Paradise Lost," has fallen.
		But it is Stanley Fish who has opened the university gates to Communist hucksters, racial demagogues and an army of third-rate political ideologues, and it is they who define what the university curriculum is and is not.
		Fish is smart enough to realize that I chose the categories Republican and Democrat not to identify substantive outlooks I felt should be represented in university classrooms.
	dir.salon.com /story/news/col/horo/2002/07/15/fish/index_np.html?x (888 words)

	Empirical Studies of Literature --
		Fish advances his social-constructivist argument by way of discussion of three examples of episodes of interpretation in action, and we may revisit each of these briefly in summarizing his argument.
		Fish notes that he has "duplicated this experiment" many times in universities all over the world and the result is always the same.
		Fish discusses the manner in which the interpretation of a student raising his hand is contingent on a set of institutional knowledge, and that the student's gesture could be 'read' in innumerable ways by someone unfamiliar with this institutional knowledge.
	www.ualberta.ca /~dmiall/LiteraryReading/Readings/Fish_1980.htm (774 words)

	Fish, Stanley Criticism and Essays
		Fish's first teaching job was at the University of California at Berkeley, where he received incremental promotions from the position of instructor, beginning in 1962, to that of professor of English in 1969.
		Fish was criticized for what was observed to be an overly strong cynicism concerning liberalism; on the other hand, the book was praised as helping to revive, through wit and word play, the rather weary state of current legal discourse.
		Fish's opposition to the “principles” of liberalism, however, was not found to be either original in its stance or conclusive in terms of supplying a remedy for the current political state.
	www.enotes.com /contemporary-literary-criticism/fish-stanley (978 words)

	Florida International University: Media Release (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Fish is best known for his work on interpretive communities, which looks at how the interpretation of a text by a reader depends on the reader's acceptance of a common set of foundational assumptions or texts.
		Fish also has written extensively on the politics of the university, commented on campus speech codes, and criticized political statements by university or faculty bodies on matters outside their professional areas of expertise.
		Fish will be the Davidson-Kahn Distinguished University Professor of Humanities and Law at FIU, with a principal appointment in the College of Law and a lecturer role in the College of Arts and Sciences.
	news.fiu.edu /releases/2005/06-29_stanleyfish.htm (659 words)

	Amazon.ca: How Milton Works: Books: Stanley Fish (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Fish's approach to texts, including statutes and the US Constitution (he is perhaps better known for jurisprudence than for lit crit) moves the text off the page, and into the class -- the interpretive community.
		Fish is popularly known for inadvertently setting off the most embarrassing scandal in the science wars when Alan Sokal's hoaxing contribution to Fish's journal, Social Text was denounced by Sokal as a paradoy of postmodernist cant.
		Fish asserts that the core of Milton's significance is richly theologically, in that "there is only one choice to be or not to be allied with divinity." In various chapters Fish reworks the rich mythic structure of Paradise Lost to show how the Fall that separated Satan from Heaven parallels Adam and Eve loss Eden.
	www.amazon.ca /How-Milton-Works-Stanley-Fish/dp/067401233X (1165 words)

	Sherman Dorn: Spanking Stanley Fish
		Fish claims that there is a dichotomy of views on Barrett's adjunct teaching at U. Wisconsin this fall, with supporters who insist that it is the very point of an academic institution to entertain all points of view, however unpopular.
		One shouldn't be too surprised by Fish's larger argument, since his thesis fits with his other writings on academic freedom: To Stanley Fish, there is no such thing as free speech, academic freedom has nothing to do with our society's system of political freedoms anyway, and faculty should keep their politics out of their jobs.
		Fish's redefinition is the immaculate conception of academic freedom, somehow removed from the potential taint of actual ideas.
	www.shermandorn.com /mt/archives/000591.html (798 words)

	Stanley Fish's Surprised by Sin
		Professor Fish's first chapter, in which he establishes the basis of his claim that the weak parts of Milton's Paradise Lost were put in deliberately, says that Milton accepted Plato's disparagement of rhetoric as appealing only to the emotions while logic, by contrast, appeals to the reason.
		Ignoring all this evidence, Fish seizes on the words cause, effect, taste, reasoning, experience and open eyes in the speeches of Satan and Eve to imply that the poem's message is an attempt to identify original sin with reason in general and experimental science in particular.
		Fish apparently had afterthoughts, mostly about his low opinion of A.J.A. Waldock, but by this time was too tired of his own book to begin work anew and weave them into the text in the appropriate places.
	userwww.sfsu.edu /~draker/reviews/stanleyfish.html (6131 words)

	The Jurisprudence [?] of Stanley Fish (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Fish believes he can achieve his purpose by establishing that meaning is a property not of text but of context, and that conclusion is said to follow from the view that all texts are contextualized.
		Fish's venture into legal theory or my venture into literary theory may leave CLS as vibrant as ever and the problems of the law exactly where we found them, but even so, the hope is that our exchanges have changed the relations between the two disciplines—mutual access to each has been enhanced.
		Fish's jurisprudence may be mistaken in its particulars—so I have labored to suggest; I would urge you, however, not to focus on the details but to see this debate as part of a general intellectual movement that has opened the boundaries of both law and literature.
	www.mla.org /ade/bulletin/n080/080001.htm (3117 words)

	Outline for Stanley Fish piece:
		Fish is correct in insisting that illiberal views are not tolerated by theories of toleration, but this theoretical point needs to be enriched by political analysis.
		Fish’s entire case hangs on this point since he acknowledges that "local hermeunitcs", rules of thumb that are reliable most of the time, do matter.
		According to Fish, each asserts the existence of "mysterious (that is, genealogically impossible) agents and activities…(with an) unimaginable capacity of standing apart from the ‘prevailing realm of purposes’." But herein lies the difference between post-structuralism and critical theory.
	www.clas.ufl.edu /users/kohn/theory-fish.html (6537 words)

	Harvard University Press: How Milton Works by Stanley Fish
		Fish releases Milton from this Procrustean bed by restoring his integrity as a writer whose works expressed the timeless serenity of theological conviction...Though unfashionable, Fish's thesis proves remarkably luminous in explaining a wide range of Milton texts, from his sublime Paradise Lost to his polemical tracts.
		Stanley Fish still tempts us with an uncompromising, utterly undivided, un-Romantic Milton, who honors the beauty and fertility of the created world--and the creative powers of poetic or other kinds of self-regard--yet whose moral one-liners reject the slightest tendency toward an idolatrous displacement of creator by creature.
		Stanley Fish is Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
	www.hup.harvard.edu /catalog/FISHOW.html?show=reviews (978 words)

	A BRIEF HISTORY OF LITERARY THEORY III (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		For Fish the very thoughts one thinks are made possible by presuppositions of the community in which one lives and furthermore the socially conditioned individual, which all individuals are, cannot think beyond the limits made possible by the culture.
		Fish's response to these criticisms would be to deny me as his critic access to his theory in the first place because I do not share his assumptions and, to him, only those who are within a community can understand its thought.
		Fish tends to use the same device that he attributed to Milton earlier, that is, he loves to surprise the reader and he often does this by equivocation on terms.
	www.xenos.org /essays/litthry4.htm (2779 words)

	LRB \| Terry Eagleton : The Estate Agent (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Fish thus detests liberalism rather as a hill-billy might detest the rococo self-qualifyings of a Jamesian New Yorker too pussyfooting and polite to say what he means.
		Fish, by contrast, sees all conviction as necessarily authoritarian, since he imagines that the political institution of tolerance is just a fancy way of not having the courage of one's convictions.
		Stanley Fish is the flipside of John Rawls rather as tribalism is the terrible twin of globalism, or the view from nowhere is inevitably countered by the view from us alone.
	www.lrb.co.uk /v22/n05/eagl01_.html (3184 words)

	Discriminations: Stanley Fish, Unbalanced
		Stanley Fish, controversialist and academic administrator extraordinaire (at least in his own estimation), is an outspoken advocate of racial preferences, but he regards ideological diversity as a sham.
		Fish does not explain why affirmative action for minorities to produce greater racial balance is not a deterministic argument (assuming a non-existent correlation between skin color and anything of academic relevance) that produces a racially politicized university, and society.
		I guess Fish doesn't see this as politicization since, like most far-left teachers, he thinks that the political spectrum only goes from moderately liberal to radically liberal, and anyone outside these views are just a small, ignorant, bigoted groups of people who should be ignored.
	www.discriminations.us /2005/04/stanley_fish_unbalanced.html (2149 words)

	Amazon.ca: Justifying Belief: Stanley Fish and the Work of Rhetoric: Books: Stanley Fish,J. Hillis Miller,Gary A. Olson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		While Stanley Fish has exerted immense influence on the study of seventeenth-century poetry and prose, his most widely read works—and perhaps his most important—are his nonliterary writings.
		For Fish, people "understand" or are "persuaded" by a position because it fits into the structure of beliefs already in play, not because they have been swayed by the "reasonableness" of someone's argument; they then pursue the available means of support to justify that belief rhetorically, both to themselves and to others.
		Fish, of course, is one of the most demonized and malligned academics of the day; many people, in fact, know him solely by what his critics have said about him.
	www.amazon.ca /Justifying-Belief-Stanley-Fish-Rhetoric/dp/0791456129 (921 words)

	Althouse: Stanley Fish takes on the Kevin Barrett controversy.
		Fish argues that advocacy of ideas is the dividing line between legitimate and illegitimate speech in a university.
		Fish, like virtually all literature professors, is both an idiot and a fraud, unaware of the real world in which we non-professors who subsidize the University of Wisocnsin, reside.
		Fish's line between exploring something academically and espousing it in class is at least clear as a matter of theory.
	althouse.blogspot.com /2006/07/stanley-fish-takes-on-kevin-barrett.html (13273 words)

	Amazon.com: The Trouble with Principle: Books: Stanley Fish (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		It describes, says Fish, "whatever qualifications are deemed desirable for the performance of a particular task, and there is nothing fixed about those qualifications." Fish supports affirmative action because he believes we must take into account the history of oppression suffered by the groups that affirmative action is meant to benefit.
		Fish might do well to consider that the principle of non-discrimination need not be problematized because it is used by enemies of affirmative action in naughty and illegitimate ways.
		Fish's book on principle, where he dismantles the fanciful notions of "neutral zones" and "non-position positions" of argumentation, is a truly engaging work, like most of his books have been.
	www.amazon.com /Trouble-Principle-Stanley-Fish/dp/0674005341 (2799 words)

	Brad DeLong's Semi-Daily Journal: Stanley Fish's Antimoral Philosophy
		Stanley Fish declares he favors the second: that it is to the discredit of liberals that their faith doesn't hold that you should cut the throats of infidels who blaspheme.
		Note that to Fish the problem with those he calls "liberals" is not that they are unwilling to die for their faith: it is that they are not willing enough to kill others--to "fight" for their faith, and to fight "to the death" for it.
		What's weird about this Fish article is that he's criticizing (a not very clearly defined) "liberalism" for resembling something that a lot of people would call relativist postmodernism, ie that all beliefs are roughly equal in their weightlessness, a school of thought of which Fish is regarded as a major proponent.
	delong.typepad.com /sdj/2006/02/stanley_fishs_a.html (6289 words)

	Althouse: Stanley Fish's bad analogy about Scalia's constitutional interpretation.
		Stanley Fish has a NYT op-ed that's supposed to wise us up to the rhetoric of constitutional interpretation that's about to flow all around us:
		Fish tries to debunk the conventional terminology, and reaches a conclusion that I think most legal academics would agree with: it's not the interpretative methodology you say you're following that matters, but where that methodology really takes you in particular cases.
		Fish too is wrong in that the real justification of textualism/originalism is NOT that it is correct, but that its use has the least amount of danger present for meddling by unaccountable policy-makers (or Justices in this case).
	althouse.blogspot.com /2005/07/stanley-fishs-bad-analogy-about.html (4672 words)

	Stanley Fish Has A Blog? - Wonkette
		Anyhoo, yes, Professor Stanley Fish is blogging, over at the Times (where else).
		Stanley, the op-ed page is thataway (and even they won’t let you go over 1,200 words).
		Stanley is a poopster, but he isn't doing anything he hasn't been doing exactly the same way for years.
	wonkette.com /politics/stanley-fish/stanley-fish-has-a-blog-167381.php (432 words)

	Methodological Difficulties \| Stanley Fish
		The caption under his large photo read "Stanley Fish, a postmodernist, says there is no objective standard for proving truth." Thus do people in this island see the issues, and the people who represent them.
		Fish was also prominent among those who came to the defense of the Social Text people when physicist Alan Sokal conned their little (Duke University) journal into accepting a hoax theory "linking quantum mechanics with the formulations of postmodern thought," a hoax theory that had been constructed by Sokal himself.
		Fish only made himself ridiculous by coming to the defense of this ridiculous situation.
	www.umass.edu /wsp/methodology/difficulties/fish.html (577 words)

	Stanley Fish and the Place of Criticism
		Fish is not against either interdisciplinarity or notions of unity - he thinks them practically inescapable - but he is afraid that if we make these the principal objects of study, we put at risk that discipline which, for the last hundred years or more, has thrived under the rubric of literary studies.
		As a pragmatist, Fish is clearly not too bothered by the imputation that literary studies, like other fields, is a construction.
		Here, Fish's larger point is that if too many members of this minority start to shift their attention away from the more local sorts of knowledge entailed in the study of literature, the eventual consequence will be that they will not be studying literature but something else.
	www.electronicbookreview.com /thread/criticalecologies/cloistral (1814 words)

	Amherst College News Releases: Stanley Fish April 13 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Stanley Fish To Speak on “Liberalism, Identity and Political Choice” at Amherst College April 13
		Fish served as dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
		Fish was a visiting professor at The John Marshall Law School from 2000 through 2002.
	www.amherst.edu /~pubaff/news/news_releases/05/2006_04fish.html (305 words)

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