A more conservative place
Subtitle: intellectual culture in the Bush era
By: Paul A. Bove
Series: Re-mapping the transnational: a Dartmouth series in American studies
Publisher: Dartmouth College Press
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Hanover, N.H
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781611683424; 9781611683691; 9781611683707
Subjects: Intellectual life; Study and teaching; Influence; Political aspects
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: A retrospective introduction; title: American universalism and its democracy; title: Area studies revisited; title: The American state allegorizes the ruins; title: Can American studies be "area studies"?; title: Critical poetics: American resources for theorizing America; title: Curiosity in the education of Henry Adams; title: Can we judge the humanities by their future as a course of study?; title: Humanities and the changing role of worldly engagement; title: Rights discourse in the age of U.S.-China trade; title: Historical humanist, American style; title: The ineluctability of American empire; title: The intellectual as a contemporary phenomenon; title: The end of thinking: intellectual failure in the new world order; title: Why the neocons hate Henry Adams.