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Quick studies : the best of Lingua Franca / edited and introduced by Alexander Star.
LIBRA - Special E169.12 .Q34 2002
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Learning and scholarship.
- History.
- Intellectual life.
- United States--Intellectual life--20th century--Sources.
- United States.
- Learning and scholarship--United States--History--20th century--Sources.
- Genre:
- Sources.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- xxvii, 514 pages ; 21 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2002.
- Summary:
- Hailed by "The Washington Post" as "surprising, substantive, and sophisticated" "Lingua Franca" covered the intellectual life of the 1990s with wit and passion and helped establish many of the leading voices in American journalism today. This is a collective portrait of the American intellectual in its native habitats.
- Contents:
- Part I The Reaction to Theory
- A Physicist Experiments With Cultural Studies / Alan Sokal 3
- Mystery Science Theater 10
- The Reality Gulf / Scott McLemee 22
- Last Will and Testament of an Ex-Literary Critic / Frank Lentricchia 25
- Paper Tigers / Michael Schudson 39
- Enjoy Your Zizek / Robert S. Boynton 55
- Putting the Camp Back Into Campus / Larissa MacFarquhar 71
- Is Bad Writing Necessary? / James Miller 75
- Part II The Tribulations of the Academic Life
- The Candidate / G. Kindrow 97
- The Candidate's Story / Michael S. Wardell 107
- A Most Dangerous Method / Margaret Talbot 112
- Thanks for Nothing / Emily Nussbaum 150
- The Stand / Daniel Mendelsohn 154
- Letterheads / Christopher Shea 173
- In the Franklin Factory / Jack Hitt 177
- The Man Who Knew Too Much / Ruth Shalit 192
- Part III The Political Professor
- The Killing of Professor Culianu / Ted Anton 217
- The Critique of Pure Pop / Hillary Frey 231
- Who Owns the Sixties? / Rick Perlstein 234
- Genovese's March / James Surowiecki 247
- Testaments Betrayed / Laura Secor 269
- The Color Test / Eyal Press 295
- Moo! / Jennifer Schuessler 312
- A Return to Java / Scott Sherman 317
- Part IV Scientific Subjects
- Oh My Darwin! / James Schwartz 339
- Dream On / Jim Holt 358
- Little Big Man / Jim Holt 361
- Bonobos in Paradise / Helen Epstein 364
- The Gossip Instinct / Daniel Zalewski 378
- The Looking-Glass War / Jim Holt 382
- Part V Philosophical Investigations
- Out of Body, Out of Mind / Colin McGinn 387
- What's So Funny? / Jim Holt 396
- Whose Idea Is It, Anyway? / Jim Holt 399
- Habeas Corpus / Emily Eakin 417
- The Quest for Uncertainty / James Ryerson 421
- Higher Superstitions / Jim Holt 441
- The Mystery of the Millionaire Metaphysician / James Ryerson 444
- Part VI Arts and Letters
- Black Like Me / Adam Shatz 463
- Shell Game 480
- Infidelity / Caleb Crain 484.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Contains:
- Lingua franca.
- ISBN:
- 0374528632
- OCLC:
- 49276359
- Online:
- Publisher description
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