A more conservative place : intellectual culture in the Bush era / Paul A. Bove.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bové, Paul A., 1949-

Series:

Re-mapping the transnational: a Dartmouth series in American studies.

Re-mapping the transnational: a Dartmouth series in American studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bush, George W. (George Walker), 1946-.

Intellectual life.

United States--Intellectual life--21st century.

United States.

United States--Study and teaching--Political aspects.

Bush, George W. (George Walker), 1946---Influence.

Bush, George W.

Physical Description:

xiv, 261 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Hanover, N.H. : Dartmouth College Press, 2013.

Summary:

Identifying the historical antecedents of President George W. Bush's imperial ambitions and the sources of the reactionary thought and politics that underlie them, Paul A. Bové shows how neoconservatism represents a singular danger to democracy. At the same time, he criticizes the equally disheartening inability of the academic Left to oppose neoconservatives and its tendency to mirror their views instead. Divorced from historical knowledge and intellectual rigor, the neocon mindset reflects a cultural and historical amnesia that feeds on ignorance and conformity. Exposing the threats to national survival inherent in the alliance of right-wing politics and academic tribalism, Bové emphasizes the need to reconnect with the powers of imagination and the complexity of human historical experience. With urgency and passion, Bové shows how the neocons have succeeded in cowing or coopting academic intellectuals and how language was used and abused for the maintenance and extension of an undemocratic regime. Book jacket.

Contents:

A retrospective introduction

American universalism and its democracy

Area studies revisited

The American state allegorizes the ruins

Can American studies be "area studies"?

Critical poetics: American resources for theorizing America

Curiosity in the education of Henry Adams

Can we judge the humanities by their future as a course of study?

Humanities and the changing role of worldly engagement

Rights discourse in the age of U.S.-China trade

Historical humanist, American style

The ineluctability of American empire

The intellectual as a contemporary phenomenon

The end of thinking: intellectual failure in the new world order

Why the neocons hate Henry Adams.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781611683424

1611683424

9781611683691

1611683696

9781611683707

161168370X

OCLC:

785870464