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9780801883903
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Intro -- Contents -- Introduction -- Part 1: Academia and the Question of a Common Culture -- 1 Who's Afraid of Marcel Proust? The Failure of General Education in the American University -- 2 Demography and Curriculum: The Humanities in American Higher Education from the 1950s through the 1980s -- 3 The Scholar and the World: Academic Humanists and General Readers in Postwar America -- Part 2: European Movements against the American Grain? -- 4 The Ambivalent Virtues of Mendacity: How Europeans Taught (Some of ) Us to Learn to Love the Lies of Politics -- 5 The Place of Value in a Culture of Facts: Truth and Historicism -- 6 Philosophy and Inclusion in the United States, 1929-2001 -- Part 3: Social Inclusion -- 7 Catholics, Catholicism, and the Humanities since World War II -- 8 The Black Scholar, the Humanities, and the Politics of Racial Knowledge since 1945 -- 9 Women in the Humanities: Taking Their Place -- Part 4: Area Studies at Home and Abroad -- 10 Constructing American Studies: Culture, Identity, and the Expansion of the Humanities -- 11 The Ironies of the Iron Curtain: The Cold War and the Rise of Russian Studies -- 12 What Is Japan to Us? -- 13 Havana and Macondo: The Humanities in U.S. Latin American Studies, 1940-2000 -- Acknowledgments -- Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.
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""Contents""; ""Introduction""; ""Part 1: Academia and the Question of a Common Culture""; ""1 Who�s Afraid of Marcel Proust? The Failure of General Education in the American University""; ""2 Demography and Curriculum: The Humanities in American Higher Education from the 1950s through the 1980s""; ""3 The Scholar and the World: Academic Humanists and General Readers in Postwar America""; ""Part 2: European Movements against the American Grain?""; ""4 The Ambivalent Virtues of Mendacity: How Europeans Taught (Some of ) Us to Learn to Love the Lies of Politics""
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""5 The Place of Value in a Culture of Facts: Truth and Historicism""""6 Philosophy and Inclusion in the United States, 1929�2001""; ""Part 3: Social Inclusion""; ""7 Catholics, Catholicism, and the Humanities since World War II""; ""8 The Black Scholar, the Humanities, and the Politics of Racial Knowledge since 1945""; ""9 Women in the Humanities: Taking Their Place""; ""Part 4: Area Studies at Home and Abroad""; ""10 Constructing American Studies: Culture, Identity, and the Expansion of the Humanities""; ""11 The Ironies of the Iron Curtain: The Cold War and the Rise of Russian Studies""
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""12 What Is Japan to Us?""""13 Havana and Macondo: The Humanities in U.S. Latin American Studies, 1940�2000""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Contributors""; ""Index""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""J""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""Q""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""U""; ""V""; ""W""; ""Y""; ""Z""
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780801883903
Additional Edition:
Print version Humanities and the Dynamics of Inclusion Since World War II
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