The Humanities and the Dynamics of Inclusion Since World War II

Table of Contents

Part 1: Academia and the Question of a Common Culture

• "Who's Afraid of Marcel Proust? The Failure of General Education in the American University"
  John Guillory
• "Demography and Curriculum: The Humanities in American Higher Education from the 1950s through the 1980s"
  Roger L. Geiger
• "The Scholar and the World: Academic Humanists and General Readers"
  Joan Shelley Rubin

Part 2: European Movements against the American Grain?

• "The Ambivalent Virtues of Mendacity: How Europeans Taught (Some of Us) to Learn to Love the Lies of Politics"
  Martin Jay
• "The Place of Value in a Culture of Facts: Truth and Historicism"
  James T. Kloppenberg
• "Philosophy and Inclusion in the United States, 1929-2001"
  Bruce Kuklick

Part 3: Social Inclusion

• "Catholics, Catholicism, and the Humanities, 1945-1985"
  John T. McGreevy
• "The Black Scholar, the Humanities, and the Politics of Racial Knowledge Since 1945"
  Jonathan Scott Holloway
• "Women in the Humanities: Taking Their Place"
  Rosalind Rosenberg

Part 4: Area Studies at Home and Abroad

• "American Studies and the Expansion of the Humanities"
  Leila Zenderland
• "The Ironies of the Iron Curtain: The Cold War and the Rise of Russian Studies"
  David C. Engerman
• "What is Japan to Us"?
  Andrew E. Barshay
• "Havana and Macondo: The Humanities Side of U.S. Latin American Studies, 1940-2000"
  Rolena Adorno

Author Information

David A. Hollinger is Preston Hotchkis Professor of American History at the University of California, Berkeley, and a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.