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The crisis~ of the "project of modernity" (Habermas) is, at the
same time, a crisis of critical theories of society and culture
that have radically questioned bourgeois culture and capitalist
society and economy from the perspective of a utopia of enlightened
rationality. A number of parallel recent social and political
problems, developments, and
Starting in 2005, Gunter H. Lenz began preparing a book-length
exploration of the transformation of the field of American Studies
in the crucial years between 1970 and 1990. As a commentator on,
contributor to, and participant in the intellectual and
institutional changes in his field, Lenz was well situated to offer
a comprehensive and balanced interpretation of that seminal era.
Building on essays he wrote while these changes were ongoing, he
shows how the revolution in theory, the emergence of postmodern
socioeconomic conditions, the increasing globalization of everyday
life, and postcolonial responses to continuing and new forms of
colonial domination had transformed American Studies as a
discipline focused on the distinctive qualities of the United
States to a field encompassing the many different "Americas" in the
Western Hemisphere as well as how this complex region influenced
and was interpreted by the rest of the world. In tracking the shift
of American Studies from its exceptionalist bias to its
unmanageable global responsibilities, Lenz shows the crucial roles
played by the 1930s' Left in the U.S., the Frankfurt School in
Germany and elsewhere between 1930 and 1960, Continental
post-structuralism, neo-Marxism, and post-colonialism. Lenz's
friends and colleagues, now his editors, present here his final
backward glance at a critical period in American Studies and the
birth of the Transnational.
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