American Academic Culture in Transformation : : Fifty Years, Four Disciplines /

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

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...

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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
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Physical Description:1 online resource (370 p.)
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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

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