Democracy's children : intellectuals and the rise of cultural politics /

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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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: McGowan, John, 1953- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, 2002.
Subjects:
1900-1999
Criticism > History > 20th century.
Criticism > Political aspects > History > 20th century.
College teaching > United States.
Intellectual life > History > 20th century.
Critique > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Critique > Aspect politique > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Enseignement universitaire > États-Unis.
Vie intellectuelle > 20e siècle.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Political Ideologies > Democracy.
College teaching
Criticism
Criticism > Political aspects
Intellectual life
Intellektueller
Gesellschaft
Aufsatzsammlung
United States
Higher & further education, tertiary education
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : literary intellectuals in and for a democratic society
  • Climbing the walls : the intellectual as academic
  • At the 1986 MLA convention
  • Teaching literature : where, how, and why
  • An ABCs of post-theoretical style
  • Humanists, cultural authority, and the university
  • Roads to the present, paths to a future
  • Modernity and culture : the Victorians and cultural studies
  • The narrative of culture : a Burkean perspective
  • Toward a pragmatist pluralism.

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