The humanities and the dynamics of inclusion since World War II
By: edited by David A. Hollinger.
Contributors: Hollinger, David A.
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Baltimore
Language: eng
Number of pages: 421
Subjects: Humanities -- Study and teaching (Higher) -- United States.; Humanities -- United States -- History -- 20th century.; Learned institutions and societies -- United States -- History -- 20th century.; Learning and scholarship -- United States -- History -- 20th century.; Multicultural education -- United States -- History -- 20th century.; Education -- Demographic aspects -- United States -- History -- 20th century.; Demography -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Who's afraid of Marcel Proust? the failure of general education in the American university / John Guillory; title: Demography and curriculum : the humanities in American higher education from the 1950s through the 1980s / Roger L. Geiger; title: The scholar and the world : academic humanists and general readers / Joan Shelley Rubin; title: The ambivalent virtues of mendacity : how Europeans taught (some of us) to learn to love the lies of politics / Martin Jay; title: The place of value in a culture of facts : truth and historicism / James T. Kloppenberg; title: Philosophy and inclusion in the United States, 1929-2001 / Bruce Kuklick; title: Catholics, catholicism, and the humanities, 1945-1985 / John T. McGreevy; title: The Black scholar, the humanities, and the politics of racial knowledge since 1945 / Jonathan Scott Holloway; title: Women in the humanities : taking their place / Rosalind Rosenberg; title: American studies and the expansion of the humanities / Leila Zenderland; title: The ironies of the iron curtain : the cold war and the rise of Russian studies / David C. Engerman; title: What is Japan to us? / Andrew E. Barshay; title: Havana and Macondo : the humanities side of U.S Latin American studies, 1940-2000 / Rolena Adorno.