{"product_id":"the-tyranny-of-virtue-identity-the-academy-and-the-hunt-for-political-heresies-paperback","title":"The Tyranny of Virtue: Identity, the Academy, and the Hunt for Political Heresies - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eRobert Boyers\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom public intellectual and professor Robert Boyers, \"\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003ea powerfully persuasive, insightful, and provocative prose that mixes erudition and first-hand reportage\" (Joyce Carol Oates) addressing recent developments in American culture and arguing for the tolerance of difference that is at the heart of the liberal tradition.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWritten from the perspective of a liberal intellectual who has spent a lifetime as a writer, editor, and college professor, \u003ci\u003eThe Tyranny of Virtue \u003c\/i\u003eis 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ePart memoir and part polemic, Boyers's 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.\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 208\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.7 x 8.2 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 02, 2021\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53250963964237,"sku":"9781982127190","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0927\/3304\/7117\/files\/MWxXbk9tU0k3S3lUbU9Rd3VIVjBRQT09.webp?v=1769511154","url":"https:\/\/belfastbooks.us\/products\/the-tyranny-of-virtue-identity-the-academy-and-the-hunt-for-political-heresies-paperback","provider":"belfastbooks.us","version":"1.0","type":"link"}