American academic culture in transformation : fifty years, four disciplines / edited with an introduction by Thomas Bender and Carl E. Schorske ; foreword by Stephen R. Graubard.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bender, Thomas, editor.

Schorske, Carl E., editor.

Graubard, Stephen R., writer of foreword.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Universities and colleges--Curricula.

Universities and colleges.

Economics--Study and teaching (Higher).

Economics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 371 pages)

Place of Publication:

Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, 1998.

Summary:

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.

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

Notes:

Oorspr. versch. als: Winter issue van Daedalus ; vol. 126, no. 1, 1997.

Princeton paperbacks.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780691227832

0691227837

OCLC:

1255754138