The Humanities and the Dynamics of Inclusion Since 1945

The role played by the humanities in reconciling American diversity–a diversity of both ideas and peoples–is not always appreciated. This volume of commissioned essays will examine that role in the half century after World War II, when exceptional prosperity and population growth, coupled with an expanded American political interaction with the world abroad, presented American higher education with unprecedented challenges and opportunities for expansion. The humanities proved to be the site for important efforts to incorporate a number of groups and doctrines that had once been excluded from the American cultural conversation.

This volume, edited by David Hollinger (University of California, Berkeley), will explores the interaction between the humanities and demographic changes in the university. Several essays examine the link between these external changes and the rise of new academic specializations in area and other interdisciplinary studies.

The contributors and their topics include:

• Rolena Adorno - "Havana and Macondo: The Humanities Side of U.S. Latin American Studies (1940s-2000)"
  
  
• Andrew Barshay - "What is Japan to Us?"
  
  
• David C. Engerman - "The Ironies of the Iron Curtain: The Cold War and the Rise of Russian Studies"
  
  
• Roger Geiger - "Demography and Curriculum: The Humanities in American Higher Education, from the 1950s to the 1980s"
  
  
• John Guillory - "Who's Afraid of Marcel Proust? The Failure of General Education in the American University"
  
  
• Andrew R. Heinze - "Farther Away from New York: Jews in the Humanities after World War II"
  
  
• Jonathan Scott Holloway - "The Black Scholar, the Humanities, and the Politics of Racial Knowledge Since 1945"
  
  
• Martin Jay - "The Ambivalent Virtues of Mendacity: How Europeans Taught (Some of) Us to Learn to Love the Lies of Politics"
  
  
• James T. Kloppenberg - "The Place of Value in a Culture of Facts: Truth or Historicism"
  
  
• Bruce Kuklick - "Philosophy and Inclusion in the United States, 1929-2001"
  
  
• John T. McGreevy - "The Humanities and the Dynamics of Inclusion, 1945-1985: Catholics and Catholicism"
  
  
• Rosalind Rosenburg - "Taking Their Place: Women in the Humanities"
  
  
• Joan Shelly Rubin - "The Scholar and the World: Academic Humanists and General Readers in Postwar America"
  
  
• Leila Zenderland - "American Studies and the Dynamics of Inclusion"
  
  

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