Bibliographical Information
Summary
Edited and introduced by David Hollinger, this volume explores and analyzes the
evolution of humanities disciplines and institutions, examines the conditions
and intellectual climate in which they operate, and assesses the role and value
of the humanities in society.
Table of Contents
Part 1: Academia and the Question of a Common
Culture
"Who's Afraid of Marcel Proust? The Failure of General
Education in the American University"
John Guillory
"Demography and Curriculum: The Humanities in American
Higher Education from the 1950s through the 1980s"
Roger L. Geiger
"The Scholar and the World: Academic Humanists and
General Readers"
Joan Shelley Rubin
Part 2: European Movements against the American
Grain?
"The Ambivalent Virtues of Mendacity: How Europeans
Taught (Some of Us) to Learn to Love the Lies of Politics"
Martin Jay
"The Place of Value in a Culture of Facts: Truth and
Historicism"
James T. Kloppenberg
"Philosophy and Inclusion in the United States,
1929-2001"
Bruce Kuklick
Part 3: Social Inclusion
"Catholics, Catholicism, and the Humanities, 1945-1985"
John T. McGreevy
"The Black Scholar, the Humanities, and the Politics of
Racial Knowledge Since 1945"
Jonathan Scott Holloway
"Women in the Humanities: Taking Their Place"
Rosalind Rosenberg
Part 4: Area Studies at Home and Abroad
"American Studies and the Expansion of the Humanities"
Leila Zenderland
"The Ironies of the Iron Curtain: The Cold War and the
Rise of Russian Studies"
David C. Engerman
"What is Japan to Us"?
Andrew E. Barshay
"Havana and Macondo: The Humanities Side of U.S. Latin
American Studies, 1940-2000"
Rolena Adorno
Author Information
David A. Hollinger is Preston Hotchkis
Professor of American History at the University of California, Berkeley, and a
Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
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