American Academic Culture in Transformation

Fifty Years, Four Disciplines

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Edited by Thomas Bender and Carl E. Schorske,

Preface by Stephen R. Graubard

Princeton University Press

Due/Published April 1998, 370 pages, paper

ISBN 0691058245

In this volume scholars explore how four disciplines in the social sciences and the humanities--political science, economics, philosophy, and literary studies--have been transformed. Initiated by the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and first published in the winter 1997 issue of Daedalus, this study places academic developments in their intellectual and socio-political contexts. Scholarly innovators of different generations offer insiders' views of the course of change in their own fields, revealing the internal dynamics of disciplinary change. They also compare the very different paths the disciplines have followed within the academy and the consequent alterations in their relations to the larger public.
Contributors include M. H. Abrams, William Barber, Thomas Bender, Catherine Gallagher, Charles Lindblom, Robert Solow, David Kreps, Hilary Putnam, José David Saldívar, Alexander Nehamas, Rogers Smith, Carl Schorske, Ira Katznelson, and David Hollinger.