The Trouble with Principle

Stanley Fish

    Prologue: Taking Sides

    I. Politics All the Way Down

    1. At the Federalist Society

    2. Sauce for the Goose

    3. Of an Age and Not for All Time

    4. Boutique Multiculturalism

    II. Fish on the First

    5. The Rhetoric of Regret

    6. Fraught with Death

    7. The Dance of Theory

    III. Reasons for the Devout

    8. Vicki Frost Objects

    9. Mission Impossible

    10. A Wolf in Reason's Clothing

    11. Playing Not to Win

    12. Why We Can't All Just Get Along

    13. Faith before Reason

    IV. Credo

    14. Beliefs about Belief

    15. Putting Theory in Its Place

    16. Truth and Toilets

    Epilogue: How the Right Hijacked the Magic Words

    Notes

    Acknowledgments

    Index

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Stanley Fish is Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at the University of Illinois at Chicago. His many books include There's No Such Thing as Free Speech, and It's a Good Thing Too.