American Academic Culture in Transformation : : Fifty Years, Four Disciplines / / ed. by Thomas Bender, Carl E. Schorske.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Archive 1927-1999
• MitwirkendeR: Abratns, M. H.,; Barber, William J.,; Bender, Thomas,; Gallagher, Catherine,; Graubard, Stephen R.,; Graubard, Stephen,; Hollinger, David A.,; Katznelson, Ira,; Kreps, David M.,; Lindblom, Charles E.,; Nehamas, Alexander,; Putnam, Hilary,; Saldwar, Jose David,; Schorske, Carl E.,; Smith, Rogers M.,; Solow, Robert M.,
• HerausgeberIn: Bender, Thomas,; Schorske, Carl E.,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2022]; ©1998
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (370 p.)

In the half century since World War II, American academic culture has changed profoundly. Until now, those changes have not been charted, nor have their implications for current discussions of the academy been appraised. In this book, however, eminent academic figures who have helped to produce many of the changes of the last fifty years explore how four disciplines in the social sciences and humanities--political science, economics, philosophy, and literary studies--have been transformed. Edited by the distinguished historians Thomas Bender and Carl Schorske, the book places academic developments in their intellectual and socio-political contexts. Scholarly innovators of different generations offer insiders' views of the course of change in their own fields, revealing the internal dynamics of disciplinary change. Historians examine the external context for these changes--including the Cold War, Vietnam, feminism, civil rights, and multiculturalism. They also compare the very different paths the disciplines have followed within the academy and the consequent alterations in their relations to the larger public. Initiated by the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the study was first published in Daedalus in its 1997 winter issue. The contributors are M. H. Abrams, William Barber, Thomas Bender, Catherine Gallagher, Charles Lindblom, Robert Solow, David Kreps, Hilary Putnam, José David Saldívar, Alexander Nehamas, Rogers Smith, Carl Schorske, Ira Katznelson, and David Hollinger.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- INTRODUCTION -- PART I. HISTORICAL CONTEXT -- Politics, Intellect, and the American University, 1945-1995 -- PART II. TRAJECTORIES OF INTRA-DISCIPLINARY CHANGE: PARTICIPANT PERSPECTIVES -- ECONOMICS -- How Did Economics Get That Way and What Way Did It Get? -- Economics—The Current Position -- Reconfigurations in American Academic Economics: A General Practitioner's Perspective -- ENGLISH -- The Transformation of English Studies: 1930-1995 -- The History of Literary Criticism -- Tracking English and American Literary and Cultural Criticism -- PHILOSOPHY -- A Half Century of Philosophy, Viewed From Within -- Trends in Recent American Philosophy -- POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Science in the 1940s and 1950s -- Still Blowing in the Wind: The American Quest for a Democratic, Scientific Political Science -- PART III. INTER-DISCIPLINARY COMPARISONS: HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES -- The New Rigorism in the Human Sciences, 1940-1960 -- From the Street to the Lecture Hall: The 1960s -- The Disciplines and the Identity Debates, 1970-1995