American Labyrinth : : Intellectual History for Complicated Times /

American Labyrinth : : Intellectual History for Complicated Times / / ed. by Andrew Hartman, Raymond Haberski.

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American Labyrinth contains a stimulating and useful collection of essays by historians reflecting on American intellectual history. As a whole, the book convinces the reader that the field of intellectual history is enjoying a renaissance. The book will be especially prized by intellectual historia...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Complete eBook-Package 2018
MitwirkendeR:
Burgin, Angus,
Cameron, Christopher,
Flores, Ruben,
Haberski, Raymond,
Hartman, Andrew,
Healan Gaston, K.,
Holloway, Jonathan,
Jewett, Andrew,
Kittelstrom, Amy,
L. Alpers, Benjamin,
Lacy, Tim,
Livingston, James,
M. Schultz, Kevin,
Mattson, Kevin,
McKnight Nichols, Christopher,
Mehlman Petrzela, Natalia,
Sehat, David,
Szefel, Lisa,
Wickberg, Daniel,
HerausgeberIn:
Haberski, Raymond,
Hartman, Andrew,
Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2018]
©2018
Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (348 p.) :; 2 b&w halftones, 3 charts
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction. INTELLECTUAL HISTORY FOR COMPLICATED TIMES
  • Section I. MAPPING AMERICAN IDEAS
  • 1. WINGSPREAD: So What?
  • 2. ON LEGAL FUNDAMENTALISM
  • 3. FREEDOM’S JUST ANOTHER WORD? The Intellectual Trajectories of the 1960s
  • Section II. IDEAS AND AMERICAN IDENTITIES
  • 4. PHILOSOPHY VS. PHILOSOPHERS A Problem in American Intellectual History
  • 5. THE PRICE OF RECOGNITION Race and the Making of the Modern University
  • 6. THANKS, GENDER! An Intellectual History of the Gym
  • 7. PARALLEL EMPIRES Transnationalism and Intellectual History in the Western Hemisphere
  • Section III. DANGEROUS IDEAS
  • 8. TOWARD A NEW, OLD LIBERAL IMAGINATION From Obama to Niebuhr and Back Again
  • 9. AGAINST THE LIBERAL TRADITION An Intellectual History of the American Left
  • 10. FROM “TALL IDEAS DANCING” TO TRUMP’S TWITTER RANTING Reckoning the Intellectual History of Conservatism
  • 11. THE REINVENTION OF ENTREPRENEURSHIP
  • Section IV. CONTESTED IDEAS
  • 12. WAR AND AMERICAN THOUGHT Finding a Nation through Killing and Dying
  • 13. UNITED STATES IN THE WORLD The Significance of an Isolationist Tradition
  • 14. REINSCRIBING RELIGIOUS AUTHENTICITY Religion, Secularism, and the Perspectival Character of Intellectual History
  • 15. “THE ENTIRE THING WAS A FRAUD” Christianity, Freethought, and African American Culture
  • Section V. IDEAS AND CONSEQUENCES
  • 16. AGAINST AND BEYOND HOFSTADTER Revising the Study of Anti-intellectualism
  • 17. CULTURE AS INTELLECTUAL HISTORY Broadening a Field of Study in the Wake of the Cultural Turn
  • 1.8 ON THE POLITICS OF KNOWLEDGE Science, Conflict, Power
  • CONCLUSION. The Idea of Historical Context and the Intellectual Historian
  • Contributors
  • Acknowledgments
  • Index

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