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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"Intellectual freedom"”.
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Intellectual freedom and the politics of reading: libraries as sites of conservative activism, 1990-2010
… (ALA), opposing the ALA’s defenses of intellectual freedom for all ages and all types of media. These activists described their own struggle as a quest to wrest libraries away from the ALA and restore them to parental and taxpayer control. This dissertation explores why libraries and …
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Intellectual Freedom of Academic Scientists: Cases of Political Challenges Involving Federally Sponsored Research on National Environmental Policies
… to the literature on the academic profession's intellectual freedom. Drawing significantly on two methodological approaches, comparative case study and grounded theory, this dissertation examines three controversies in which government officials challenged academic scientists' federally …
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Freedom Through Books: Helen Haines and Her Role in the Library Press, Library Education, and the Intellectual Freedom Movement
… books as a means to opportunity, equality, and freedom. This belief was strengthened by experience in the book trade under her first employer, Richard Rogers Bowker, and then broadened by her membership in the American Library Association, for whom she served as Recorder (1894-1908). She later …
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A Polanyian tack: political implications
Intellectual freedom justifies social freedom and is justified as the pursuit of truth. I argue that intellectual freedom is the creative exercise of Polanyian tacit knowing. Polanyian tacit knowing is discovery, a way to new truth. Intellectual freedom, imagined is (1) negative or primarily …
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White Collar Read: The American Public Library and the Left-Led CIO: A Case Study of the Chicago Public Library, 1929--1952
… was not only the professional commitment to intellectual freedom, codified within library policies, but a stronger identification with the diverse service populations of the American public library.
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Equity of Access to Information: A Comparative Exploration of Library Accessibility and Information Access From Differently-Able Patrons' Perspectives
… government and information agencies designed the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) and statements of Intellectual Freedom to help ensure the inalienable right to access information. While these documents were not designed with physical access in mind, they establish the principle of equity of …
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Literature and Education: Recalling Matthew Arnold
… Arnold considers the supreme characteristic of intellectual freedom, "the intellectual maturity of man himself; the tendency to observe facts with a critical spirit; to search for their law, not to wander among them at random; to judge by the rule of reason, not by the impulse of prejudice or …
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George Eliot's Use of Irony
… created a new sense of social, political, and intellectual freedom at the same time had inspired deep feelings of personal doubt, isolation, and loss. George Eliot's art, like that of her best contemporaries, thus contains two warring impulses--the desire to portray faithfully the flux and …
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No place for a white woman? An exploration of the interplay of gender, race and class on power relations experienced by white western women in cross-cultural settings
… an illusion that life writers not only have the freedom to write what they like but that, somehow, they have a moral duty to do so. Life writers can ‘challenge our society’s enormous untruthfulness,’ writes David Parker (cited in Helen, 2006, p. 326). Other authors urge life writers to stand by …
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A Solution to "The Problem of Socrates" in Nietzsche's Thought: An Explanation of Nietzsche's Ambivalence Toward Socrates
… which grant the individual as much moral and intellectual freedom as necessary so that they may affirm life in the manner they find most satisfying and rewarding. Hence, it is only through a thorough investigation of Nietzsche's view of reason that his ambivalence toward Socrates can be fully …
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“Tweet of the town:” synthesizing local and social media discourse on book bans
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2025-10-20 without embargo terms
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The Theatre of Anon: Julia Margaret Cameron, Virginia Woolf, and the Performance of Alfred Tennyson's Idylls of the King
… that could foster moments of transcendent unity, intellectual freedom, and imaginative inspiration, and in drama an art form resilient enough to withstand an audience's interruption and disillusionment. Performance provided a collaborative alternative to the conservative constraints that were her …