A More Conservative Place
Intellectual Culture in the Bush Era
Distributed for Dartmouth College Press
280 pages
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6 x 9
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Table of Contents

Contents
Preface • Acknowledgments • A Retrospective Introduction • American Universalism and Its Democracy • Area Studies Revisited • The American State Allegorizes the Ruins • Can American Studies Be “Area Studies”? • Critical Poetics: American Resources for Theorizing America • Curiosity in The Education of Henry Adams • Can We Judge the Humanities by Their Future as a Course of Study? • Humanities and the Changing Role of Worldly Engagement The Ineluctability of American Empire • Rights Discourse in the Age of U.S.-China Trade • Historical Humanist, American Style • The Intellectual as a Contemporary Phenomenon • The End of Thinking: Intellectual Failure in the New World Order • Why the Neocons Hate Henry Adams • Notes • Index
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