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."
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