"Issued as Volume 126, Number 1, of the Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences."
Bibliographic Note:
Includes bibliographical references
Contents:
Politics, intellect and the American University, 1945-1995 / Thomas Bender -- How did economics get that way and what way did it get? / Robert M. Solow -- Economics, the current position / David M. Kreps -- Reconfigurations in American academic economics : a general practitioner's perspective / William J. Barber -- The transformation of English studies, 1930-1995 / M.H. Abrams -- The history of literary criticism / Catherine Gallagher -- Tracking English and American literary and cultural criticism / José David Saldívar -- A half century of philosophy, viewed from within / Hilary Putnam -- Trends in recent American philosophy / Alexander Nehamas -- Political science in the 1940s and 1950s / Charles E. Lindblom -- Still blowing in the wind : the American quest for a democratic, scientific political science / Rogers M. Smith -- The new rigorism in the human sciences, 1940-1960 / Carl E. Schorske -- From the street to the lecture hall : the 1960s / Ira Katznelson -- The disciplines and the identity debates, 1970-1995 / David A. Hollinger