"Thou shalt not hurt others with words." That commandment looks harmless, even admirable. but it is neither. As Jonathan Rauch states in this ground breaking book, "This moral principle is deadly--inherently deadly, not incidentally so--to intellectual freedom and to the productive and peaceful pursuit of knowledge." "Kindly Inquisitors" is a refreshing and vibrant essay that casts a provocative light on the raging debates over political correctness and multiculturalism. Students and philosophers will appreciate its penetrating analysis of science; citizens, its passionate defense of unfettered criticism.
Published by the University of Chicago Press.
1993/178 pp./$17.95 cloth ISBN: 0-932790-90-9/$9.95 paper.
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