Democracy's Children Intellectuals and the Rise of Cultural Politics
How do American intellectuals try to achieve their political and social goals? By what means do they articulate their hopes for change? John McGowan seeks to identify the goals and strategies of contemporary humanistic intellectuals who strive to shape the politics and culture of their time. In a li...
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Ithaca, N.Y. :
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2018
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| See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009429954206719 |
Table of Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: Preface, vii
- Introduction: Literary Intellectuals in
- and for a Democratic Society,
- I. CLIMBING THE WALLS: THE INTELLECTUAL AS ACADEMIC
- I. At the 1986 MLA Convention, 31
- 2. Teaching Literature: Where, How, and Why, 49
- 3. An ABCs of Post-Theoretical Style, 74
- 4. Humanists, Cultural Authority, and the University, 114
- II. ROADS TO THE PRESENT, PATHS TO A FUTURE
- 5. Modernity and Culture:
- The Victorians and Cultural Studies, 141
- 6. The Narrative of Culture: A Burkean Perspective, 165
- 7. Toward a Pragmatist Pluralism, 201
- References, 231
- Index, 239.
