{"product_id":"the-humanities-and-the-dynamics-david-a-hollinger-9780801883903","title":"The Humanities and the Dynamics of Inclusion Since World War II","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe role played by the humanities in reconciling American diversity--a diversity of both ideas and peoples--is not always appreciated. This volume of essays, commissioned by the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, examines that role in the half century after World War II, when exceptional prosperity and population growth, coupled with America's expanded political interaction with the world abroad, presented American higher education with unprecedented challenges and opportunities. The humanities proved to be the site for important efforts to incorporate groups and doctrines that had once been excluded from the American cultural conversation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEdited and introduced by David Hollinger, this volume explores the interaction between the humanities and demographic changes in the university, including the link between external changes and the rise of new academic specializations in area and other interdisciplinary studies.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis volume analyzes the evolution of humanities disciplines and institutions, examines the conditions and intellectual climate in which they operate, and assesses the role and value of the humanities in society.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eContents: \u003cbr\u003eJohn Guillory, \"Who's Afraid of Marcel Proust? The Failure of General Education in the American University\" \u003cbr\u003eRoger L. Geiger, \"Demography and Curriculum: The Humanities in American Higher Education from the 1950s through the 1980s\" \u003cbr\u003eJoan Shelley Rubin, \"The Scholar and the World: Academic Humanists and General Readers\"\u003cbr\u003eMartin Jay, \"The Ambivalent Virtues of Mendacity: How Europeans Taught (Some of Us) to Learn to Love the Lies of Politics\"\u003cbr\u003eJames T. Kloppenberg, \"The Place of Value in a Culture of Facts: Truth and Historicism\"\u003cbr\u003eBruce Kuklick, \"Philosophy and Inclusion in the United States, 1929-2001\"\u003cbr\u003eJohn T. McGreevy, \"Catholics, Catholicism, and the Humanities, 1945-1985\"\u003cbr\u003eJonathan Scott Holloway, \"The Black Scholar, the Humanities, and the Politics of Racial Knowledge Since 1945\"\u003cbr\u003eRosalind Rosenberg, \"Women in the Humanities: Taking Their Place\"\u003cbr\u003eLeila Zenderland, \"American Studies and the Expansion of the Humanities\"\u003cbr\u003eDavid C. Engerman, \"The Ironies of the Iron Curtain: The Cold War and the Rise of Russian Studies\"\u003cbr\u003eAndrew E. Barshay, \"What is Japan to Us\"?\u003cbr\u003eRolena Adorno, \"Havana and Macondo: The Humanities Side of U.S. Latin American Studies, 1940-2000\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e David A. Hollinger\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0801883903\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780801883903\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Johns Hopkins University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/14\/2006\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 432\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.58lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.22h x 6.38w x 1.26d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eReference and Research Bk News\u003c\/i\u003e 08\/01\/2006 pg. 2","brand":"David A. Hollinger","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48086872031487,"sku":"9780801883903","price":53.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_02effa4a-e190-42ff-9e8e-c6efd14f1cd9.jpg?v=1769097067","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-humanities-and-the-dynamics-david-a-hollinger-9780801883903","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}