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A more conservative place

Bove, Paul A., 1949-

A more conservative place intellectual culture in the Bush era / [electronic resource] : Paul A. Bove. - Hanover, N.H. : Dartmouth College Press, 2013. - 1 online resource (p. cm.) - Re-mapping the transnational: a Dartmouth series in American studies .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

9781611683707


Electronic books.