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Tables of Contents for American Academic Culture in Transformation
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Foreword
vii
4
Stephen Graubard
Acknowledgments
xi
Thomas Bender
Carl E. Schorske
INTRODUCTION
3
14
PART I HISTORICAL CONTEXT
17
40
Thomas Bender
Politics, Intellect, and the American University, 1945-1995
17
40
PART II TRAJECTORIES OF INTRA-DISCIPLINARY CHANGE: PARTICIPANT PERSPECTIVES
57
252
ECONOMICS
57
66
Robert M. Solow
How Did Economics Get That Way and What Way Did It Get?
57
20
David M. Kreps
Economics--The Current Position
77
28
William J. Barber
Reconfigurations in American Academic Economics: A General Practitioner's Perspective
105
18
ENGLISH
123
70
M. H. Abrams
The Transformation of English Studies: 1930-1995
123
28
Catherine Gallagher
The History of Literary Criticism
151
22
Jose David Saldivar
Tracking English and American Literary and Cultural Criticism
173
20
PHILOSOPHY
193
50
Hilary Putnam
A Half Century of Philosophy, Viewed From Within
193
34
Alexander Nehamas
Trends in Recent American Philosophy
227
16
POLITICAL SCIENCE
243
66
Charles E. Lindblom
Political Science in the 1940s and 1950s
243
28
Rogers M. Smith
Still Blowing in the Wind: The American Quest for a Democratic, Scientific Political Science
271
38
PART III INTER-DISCIPLINARY COMPARISONS: HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES
309
Carl E. Schorske
The New Rigorism in the Human Sciences, 1940-1960
309
22
Ira Katznelson
From the Street to the Lecture Hall: The 1960s
331
22
David A. Hollinger
The Disciplines and the Identity Debates, 1970-1995
353