American Academic Culture in Transformation
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- ISBN 9780691058245
- Weight: 510g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 07 Jun 1998
- Publisher: Princeton University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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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, Jose David Saldivar, Alexander Nehamas, Rogers Smith, Carl Schorske, Ira Katznelson, and David Hollinger.
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.
