Editing Stanley Fish (section)

{{Short description|American literary theorist, legal scholar, author and public intellectual (born 1938)}}
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{{Infobox academic
| name  =  Stanley Eugene Fish
| birth_date  =  {{birth date and age|1938|04|19}}
| birth_place  =  [[Providence, Rhode Island]]
| occupation  =  {{Hlist|Literary theorist|legal scholar|author|professor}}
| spouse  =  [[Jane Tompkins]]
| education  =  {{Unbulleted list|[[University of Pennsylvania]] ([[Bachelor of Arts|BA]]) |[[Yale University]] ([[Master of Arts|MA]], [[Doctor of Philosophy|PhD]])}}}}
'''Stanley Eugene Fish''' (born April 19, 1938) is an American [[literary theory|literary theorist]], [[legal scholar]], [[author]] and [[public intellectual]]. He is currently the Floersheimer Distinguished Visiting Professor of Law at [[Yeshiva University]]'s [[Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law]] in New York City.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.cardozo.yu.edu/directory/stanley-fish | title=Stanley Fish | publisher=Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law | date=2013 | access-date=November 1, 2015}}</ref> Fish has previously served as the Davidson-Kahn Distinguished University Professor of Humanities and a professor of law at [[Florida International University]] and is dean emeritus of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at the [[University of Illinois at Chicago]].

Fish is associated with [[postmodernism]], although he views himself instead as an advocate of [[anti-foundationalism]].<ref>Baldacchino, Joseph. ''Humanitas''. [http://www.nhinet.org/jb-seat.htm/ "Two Kinds of Criticism: Reflective Self-Scrutiny vs. Impulsive Self-Validation"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080515235159/http://www.nhinet.org/jb-seat.htm |date=May 15, 2008 }}</ref> He is also viewed as having influenced the rise and development of [[reader-response theory]].

During his career he has also taught at the [[Cardozo School of Law]], [[University of California, Berkeley]], [[Johns Hopkins University]], [[The University of Pennsylvania]], [[Yale Law School]], [[Columbia University]], [[John Marshall Law School (Chicago)|The John Marshall Law School]], and [[Duke University]].