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Stanley Fish

1938 - Today

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Stanley Eugene Fish (born April 19, 1938) is an American literary theorist, legal scholar, author and public intellectual. He is the Floersheimer Distinguished Visiting Professor of Law at Yeshiva University's Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law in New York City. 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. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Stanley Fish is the 1,258th most popular philosopher (down from 1,253rd in 2024), the 14,082nd most popular biography from United States (down from 13,373rd in 2019) and the 93rd most popular American Philosopher.

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Stanley Fish ranks 1,258 out of 1,267. Before him are Michel Weber, Colin McGinn, Vittorio Hösle, Stanley Hauerwas, Alex Callinicos, and Joseph Overton. After him are Graham Harman, Linda Martín Alcoff, Lea Ypi, A. C. Grayling, Miranda Fricker, and Taraneh Javanbakht.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1938, Stanley Fish ranks 604. Before him are Charles Wuorinen, Les Murray, Leonard Frey, David Theile, Julie Felix, and Gary Collins. After him are Terrence McNally, Lynn Carlin, Jeff Barry, Sam Nunn, Samuel Bodman, and Gus Johnson.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Stanley Fish ranks 14,086 out of 20,380. Before him are Amy Pietz (1969), Jack Mulhall (1887), Paul Baloff (1960), Frank Carlson (1893), Anton Coppola (1917), and Elizabeth Gillies (1993). After him are Fred Clark (1914), Brandon Boyd (1976), Tom Harkin (1939), Audrey Niffenegger (1963), Trischa Zorn (1964), and Carl E. Walz (1955).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In United States

Among philosophers born in United States, Stanley Fish ranks 93. Before him are Nancy Cartwright (1944), Norman Malcolm (1911), Nel Noddings (1929), Rosemary Radford Ruether (1936), Stanley Hauerwas (1940), and Joseph Overton (1960). After him are Graham Harman (1968), William A. Dembski (1960), Richard Carrier (1969), and David Bentley Hart (1965).

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