{"product_id":"tyranny-of-virtue-book-robert-boyers-9781982127190","title":"The Tyranny of Virtue","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eTen linked essays from public intellectual and professor Robert Boyers that elegantly and fiercely address the most relevant and controversial ideas of the day-from identity and privilege to appropriation and diversity-and advocates for\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eloosening the straightjacket of the new liberal orthodoxy.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWritten from the perspective of a liberal intellectual who has spent a lifetime as a writer, editor, and college teacher, Robert Boyers's book is a precise and nuanced insider's look at shifts in American culture-most especially in the American academy-that so many people find alarming. Part memoir and part polemic, an anatomy of important and dangerous ideas and a \u003ci\u003ecri de coeur\u003c\/i\u003e lamenting the erosion of standard liberal values, Boyers devotes chapters to such subjects as tolerance, identity, privilege, appropriation, disability, and blaming the victim. And then he asks why it is that many educated persons are today more committed to safe spaces and comfort zones than to the kind of debate that was once a hallmark of the liberal imagination.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhy, Boyers wonders, is the hunt for heresies and so-called micro-aggressions a more routine feature of contemporary academic life than the patient analysis of difficult ideas and challenging books? What has brought us to a moment when students are often encouraged to emerge from their studies efficiently indoctrinated with correct views that they have not adequately considered or mastered? Can the university continue to do its proper work by creating an \u003ci\u003eus\u003c\/i\u003e versus \u003ci\u003ethem\u003c\/i\u003e orientation, underwritten by enemies lists and fueled by a sense that no dispute may be tolerated to the current consensus?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA movement to scrub university campuses clean of words, ideas, and subjects that might cause students discomfort has gained momentum over the past decades and is now slowly becoming institutionalized across the country. In \u003ci\u003eThe Tyranny of Virtue\u003c\/i\u003e, Boyers maintains a conviction that liberalism itself is in crisis, and that the attempt to understand the ordeal of a venerable liberal intellectual can illuminate the roots of the crisis. The end result is a finely tuned work of cultural intervention from the front lines.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49851967308049,"sku":"CIN1982127198G","price":8.83,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51614211604753,"sku":"NIN9781982127190","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":51694521549073,"sku":"CIN1982127198VG","price":4.08,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1982127198.jpg?v=1750728366","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/products\/tyranny-of-virtue-book-robert-boyers-9781982127190","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}