Many people on the political left found my work psychologically liberating. They began to say: once you realize that standards emerge historically, then you can see through and discard all the norms to which we have been falsely enslaved.

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.