Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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
  • Rights discourse in the age of U.S.-China trade
  • Historical humanist, American style
  • The ineluctability of American empire
  • The intellectual as a contemporary phenomenon
  • The end of thinking: intellectual failure in the new world order
  • Why the neocons hate Henry Adams.