American Academic Culture in Transformation: Fifty Years, Four Disciplines

In the half century since World War II, American academic culture has changed profoundly. Until now, those changes have not been charted, nor have their implications for current discussions of the academy been appraised. In this book, however, eminent academic figures who have helped to produce many of the changes of the last fifty years explore how four disciplines in the social sciences and humanities—political science, economics, philosophy, and literary studies—have been transformed.


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