{"product_id":"american-labyrinth-9781501730214","title":"American Labyrinth","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eAmerican Labyrinth\u003c\/i\u003e contains a stimulating and useful collection of essays by historians reflecting on American intellectual history.... As a whole, the book convinces the reader that the field of intellectual history is enjoying a renaissance. The book will be especially prized by intellectual historians, but historians of many different persuasions will find these essays rewarding too.\u003c\/b\u003e?\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntellectual history has never been more relevant and more important to public life in the United States. In complicated and confounding times, people look for the principles that drive action and the foundations that support national ideals. \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eAmerican Labyrinth\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e demonstrates the power of intellectual history to illuminate our public life and examine our ideological assumptions.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis volume of essays brings together 19 influential intellectual historians to contribute original thoughts on topics of widespread interest. Raymond Haberski Jr. and \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eAmerican labyrinth\u003c\/i\u003e contains a stimulating and useful collection of essays by historians reflecting on American intellectual history.... As a whole, the book convinces the reader that the field of intellectual history is enjoying a renaissance. The book will be especially prized by intellectual historians, but historians of many different persuasions will find these essays rewarding too.\u003c\/p\u003e * Choice *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eAmerican Labyrint\u003c\/i\u003eh, the ever combative and often funny James Livingston presents a tour-de-force biographical meditation. American Labyrinth, ultimately, is about refusing to see ideas as just a one-way discourse.\u003c\/p\u003e * Society for US Intellectual History *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction: Intellectual History for Complicated Times\u003cbr\u003e Section I \u003cb\u003eMAPPING AMERICAN IDEAS\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 1. Wingspread: So What? \u003ci\u003eJames Livingston\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 2. On Legal Fundamentalism: \u003ci\u003eDavid Sehat\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 3. Freedom's Just Another Word? The Intellectual Trajectories of the 1960s: \u003ci\u003eKevin M. Schultz\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Section II \u003cb\u003eIDEAS AND AMERICAN IDENTITIES\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 4. Philosophy vs. Philosophers: A Problem in American Intellectual History: \u003ci\u003eAmy Kittelstrom\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 5. The Price of Recognition: Race and the Making of the Modern University: \u003ci\u003eJonathan Holloway\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 6. Thanks, Gender! An Intellectual History of the Gym: \u003ci\u003eNatalia Mehlman Petrzela\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 7. Parallel Empires: Transnationalism and Intellectual History in the Western Hemisphere: Ruben Flores\u003cbr\u003e Section III \u003cb\u003eDANGEROUS IDEAS\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 8. Toward a New, Old Liberal Imagination: From Obama to Niebuhr and Back Again: \u003ci\u003eKevin Mattson\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 9. Against the Liberal Tradition: An Intellectual History of the American Left: \u003ci\u003eAndrew Hartman\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 10. From \"Tall Ideas Dancing\" to Trump's Twitter Ranting: Reckoning the Intellectual History of Conservatism: \u003ci\u003eLisa Szefel\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 11. The Reinvention of Entrepreneurship: \u003ci\u003eAngus Burgin\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Section IV \u003cb\u003eCONTESTED IDEAS\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 12. War and American Thought: Finding a Nation through Killing and Dying: \u003ci\u003eRaymond Haberski Jr.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 13. United States in the World: The Significance of an Isolationist Tradition: \u003ci\u003eChristopher McKnight Nichols\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 14. Reinscribing Religious Authenticity: Religion, Secularism, and the Perspectival Character of Intellectual History: \u003ci\u003eK. Healan Gaston\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 15. \"The Entire Thing Was a Fraud\": Christianity, Free thought, and African American Culture: \u003ci\u003eChristopher Cameron\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Section V \u003cb\u003eIDEAS AND CONSEQUENCES\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 16. Against and beyond Hofstadter: Revising the Study of Anti-intellectualism: \u003ci\u003eTim Lacy\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 17. Culture as Intellectual History: Broadening a Field of Study in the Wake of the Cultural Turn: \u003ci\u003eBenjamin L. Alpers\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 18. On the Politics of Knowledge: Science, Conflict, Power: \u003ci\u003eAndrew Jewett\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion: The Idea of Historical Context and the Intellectual Historian: \u003ci\u003eAndrew Jewett\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Contributors\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Cornell University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49409333428567,"sku":"9781501730214","price":97.2,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781501730214.jpg?v=1730506455","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/american-labyrinth-9781501730214","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}