First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life, February, 1996, Number 60

by Stanley Fish (Contributor)

First Things is published by the Institute on Religion and Public Life, an interreligious, nonpartisan research and educational 501(c)(3) organization. The Institute was founded in 1990 by Richard John Neuhaus and his colleagues to confront the ideology of secularism, which insists that the public square must be “naked,” and that faith has no place in shaping the public conversation or in shaping public policy. Articles why we can/can't get along, Stanley Fish/Richard John Neuhaus, facing up to infanticide, J. Bottum, law of moses, law of nature, David Novak, the last temptation reconsidered, Carol Iannone, christian coalition/catholic alliance, THE EDITORS, and other articles.

88 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 1996

About the author

Stanley Eugene Fish is an American literary theorist and legal scholar. He was born and raised in Providence, Rhode Island. He is often associated with postmodernism, at times to his irritation, as he describes himself as an anti-foundationalist.

He is the Davidson-Kahn Distinguished University Professor of Humanities and a Professor of Law at Florida International University, in Miami, as well as Dean Emeritus of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at the University of Illinois at Chicago, and the author of 10 books. Professor Fish has also taught at the University of California, Berkeley, Johns Hopkins University, Columbia University, and Duke University.