Modern Age, September 22nd, 2004
IN AN OP-ED PIECE entitled "Why We Built the Ivory Tower," published in The New York Times, Stanley Fish, a literary archon of the theory of deconstruction that has ravaged the academy for years, conveys some departing thoughts, after his nearly half century in academia. (1) He packages these thoughts in the form of sage advice, though his basic thinking has changed little in either its nihilistic motives or its intellectual project. This is, after all, the very same Stanley Fish whom R. V. Young has warned us against in At War With the Word (1998) and, more recently, in a reconsideration publ...
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