{"product_id":"american-academic-culture-in-transformation-9780691058245","title":"American Academic Culture in Transformation","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eExplores how four disciplines in the social sciences and humanities - political science, economics, philosophy, and literary studies - have been transformed. This book places academic developments in their intellectual and socio-political contexts, revealing the internal dynamics of disciplinary change.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eForeword by Stephen Graubard vii  Acknowledgments xi  INTRODUCTION Thomas Bender and Carl E. Schorske 3  PART I HISTORICAL CONTEXT   Thomas Bender Politics, Intellect, and the American University, 1945-1995 17  PART II TRAJECTORIES OF INTRA-DISCIPLINARY CHANGE: PARTICIPANT PERSPECTIVES   ECONOMICS   Robert M. Solow How Did Economics Get That Way and What Way Did It Get? 57  David M. Kreps Economics--The Current Position 77  William J. Barber Reconfigurations in American Academic Economics: A General Practitioner's Perspective 105  ENGLISH   M. H. Abrams The Transformation of English Studies, 1930-1995 123  Catherine Gallagher The History of Literary Criticism 151  Jose David Saldivar Tracking English and American Literary and Cultural Criticism 173  PHILOSOPHY   Hilary Putnam A Half Century of Philosophy, Viewed From Within 193  Alexander Nehamas Trends in Recent American Philosophy 227  POLITICAL SCIENCE   Charles E. Lindblom Political Science in the 1940s and 1950s 243  Rogers M. Smith Still Blowing in the Wind: The American Quest for a Democratic, Scientific Political Science 271  PART III INTER-DISCIPLINARY COMPARISONS: HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES   Carl E. Schorske The New Rigorism in the Human Sciences, 1940-1960 309  Ira Katznelson From the Street to the Lecture Hall: The 1960s 331  David A. Hollinger The Disciplines and the Identity Debates, 1970-1995 353","brand":"Princeton University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49403705229655,"sku":"9780691058245","price":49.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780691058245.jpg?v=1730484301","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/american-academic-culture-in-transformation-9780691058245","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}