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Intellectual Freedom and the Agnostic-Postmodernist View of Reading Effects

Knox, Emily J.M.

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https://hdl.handle.net/2142/55356

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Title
Intellectual Freedom and the Agnostic-Postmodernist View of Reading Effects
Author(s)
Knox, Emily J.M.
Issue Date
2014
Keyword(s)
  • intellectual freedom
  • postmodernism
  • reading effects
Abstract
One of the more confusing aspects of contemporary librarianship is its support for collecting “all sides” in its institutions while, at the same time, arguing for the positive nature of reading for all. This article focuses two positions toward knowledge effects. One, the postmodernist view, is agnostic toward the effects of gaining new knowledge while the other, the traditional–modernist view, holds that the effects of new knowledge can be known and are inevitable. It is the postmodernist position that undergirds contemporary librarianship’s support for intellectual freedom.
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press and the Graduate School of Library and Information Science. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
ISSN
0024-2594
Type of Resource
text
Language
en
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http://hdl.handle.net/2142/55356
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1353/lib.2014.0021
Copyright and License Information
Copyright (2014) Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois

Owning Collections

Library Trends 63 (1) Summer 2014: New Perspectives on Intellectual Freedom PRIMARY
Library Trends 63 (1) Summer 2014: New Perspectives on Intellectual Freedom. Edited by Mark McCallon.