9780226772233 | Univ of Chicago Pr, December 18, 1995, cover price $24.95 |
About this edition: Argues for the freedom of the arts, as works of the imagination, against censors taking them literally, and discusses the work produced by individuals with objectionable political pasts
9780226772240 | Univ of Chicago Pr, November 24, 1997, cover price $22.50 |
About this edition: Surveying a wide range of cultural controversies, from the Mapplethorpe affair to Salman Rushdie's death sentence, from canon-revision in the academy to the scandals that have surrounded Anthony Blunt, Martin Heidegger, and Paul de Man, Wendy Steiner shows that the fear and outrage they inspired are the result of dangerous misunderstanding about the relationship between art and life.