American Academic Culture in Transformation: Fifty Years, Four Disciplines

Published by Princeton University Press 1998

American Academic Culture in Transformation

Fifty Years, Four Disciplines

Edited by: Thomas Bender and Carl E. Schorske
With contributions by: Stephen R. Graubard

https://doi.org/10.1515/9780691227832

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About this book

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.

Author / Editor information

Thomas Bender is University Professor of the Humanities and Professor of History at New York University. He is the author of Intellect and Public Life; New York Intellect; and Community and Social Change in America.
Carl E. Schorske is Professor of History Emeritus at Princeton University. He is the author of Fin-de-Siècle Vienna and German Social Democracy, 1905 -1917. Together, Bender and Schorske edited Budapest and New York: Studies in Metropolitan Transformation, 1870-1930.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Foreword Stephen Graubard Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	xi
INTRODUCTION Thomas Bender and Carl E. Schorske Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
PART I. HISTORICAL CONTEXT
Politics, Intellect, and the American University, 1945-1995 Thomas Bender Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	17
PART II. TRAJECTORIES OF INTRA-DISCIPLINARY CHANGE: PARTICIPANT PERSPECTIVES
ECONOMICS
How Did Economics Get That Way and What Way Did It Get? Robert M. Solow Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	57
Economics—The Current Position David M. Kreps Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	77
Reconfigurations in American Academic Economics: A General Practitioner's Perspective William J. Barber Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	105
ENGLISH
The Transformation of English Studies: 1930-1995 M. H. Abratns Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	123
The History of Literary Criticism Catherine Gallagher Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	151
Tracking English and American Literary and Cultural Criticism Jose David Saldwar Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	173
PHILOSOPHY
A Half Century of Philosophy, Viewed From Within Hilary Putnam Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	193
Trends in Recent American Philosophy Alexander Nehamas Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	227
POLITICAL SCIENCE
Political Science in the 1940s and 1950s Charles E. Lindblom Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	243
Still Blowing in the Wind: The American Quest for a Democratic, Scientific Political Science Rogers M. Smith Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	271
PART III. INTER-DISCIPLINARY COMPARISONS: HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES
The New Rigorism in the Human Sciences, 1940-1960 Carl E. Schorske Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	309
From the Street to the Lecture Hall: The 1960s Ira Katznelson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	331
The Disciplines and the Identity Debates, 1970-1995 David A. Hollinger Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	353