It is of no help to us that there is an absolute truth of the matter of things because unfortunately, none of us are in a position to say definitively what that is - although we all think that we are.

Stanley Eugene Fish (born April 19 1938 in Providence Rhode Island) is an American literary theorist legal scholar academic and public intellectual. from Yale University in 1960. The conservative R.

He is often associated with postmodernism at times to his irritation as he describes himself as an anti-foundationalist. Fish has also taught at the Cardozo School of Law University of California Berkeley Johns Hopkins University The University of Pennsylvania Yale Law Columbia University The John Marshall Law School and Duke University.