The politics of research
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The politics of research
（Millennial shifts）
Rutgers University Press, 1997
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cloth ISBN 9780813524184
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Eloquent, provocative, and timely, these essays provide a thoughtful, undoctrinaire defense of the centrality of the humanities to higher education--and society--at the millennium.--Cora Kaplan, University of Southampton The crisis in the humanities and higher education intensifies daily. The partisan din drowns out the voices of those thinkers who have resisted the seductions of strong ideology. Against the tendencies of the extreme attacks on higher education from the right and the counterattacks from the left, many academics would prefer to get beyond critical fashions and easy slogans. In this collection, leading scholars demonstrate how the current furor threatens the critical analysis of culture, so vital to a healthy society. They explore the historical sources of the crisis, the relations between politics and research, the responsibilities and possibilities of the academic intellectual, the structure of the institution of the university, the functions and achievements of the humanities, and the development of interdisciplinarity as a catalyst for change. This volume is a necessary resource for understanding the current crisis and for transforming the academy as we approach the twenty-first century. The contributors are Jonathan Arac, Lauren Berlant, Peter Brooks, Roman de la Campa, Myra Jehlen, Stanley Katz, Richard Kramer, Dominick LaCapra, George Levine, Ellen Messer-Davidow, Helene Moglen, Bill Readings, and Bruce Robbins. E. Ann Kaplan is the director of The Humanities Institute at the State University of New York at Stony Brook
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pbk. ISBN 9780813524191
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"Eloquent, provocative, and timely, these essays provide a thoughtful, undoctrinaire defense of the centrality of the humanities to higher education--and society--at the millennium."--Cora Kaplan, University of Southampton The crisis in the humanities and higher education intensifies daily. The partisan din drowns out the voices of those thinkers who have resisted the seductions of strong ideology. Against the tendencies of the extreme attacks on higher education from the right and the counterattacks from the left, many academics would prefer to get beyond critical fashions and easy slogans. In this collection, leading scholars demonstrate how the current furor threatens the critical analysis of culture, so vital to a healthy society. They explore the historical sources of the crisis, the relations between politics and research, the responsibilities and possibilities of the academic intellectual, the structure of the institution of the university, the functions and achievements of the humanities, and the development of interdisciplinarity as a catalyst for change. This volume is a necessary resource for understanding the current crisis and for transforming the academy as we approach the twenty-first century. The contributors are Jonathan Arac, Lauren Berlant, Peter Brooks, Roman de la Campa, Myra Jehlen, Stanley Katz, Richard Kramer, Dominick LaCapra, George Levine, Ellen Messer-Davidow, Helene Moglen, Bill Readings, and Bruce Robbins. E. Ann Kaplan is the director of The Humanities Institute at the State University of New York at Stony Brook
Table of Contents
- Part One. Politics of the institution and the public intellectual. Theory after theory: institutional questions / Bill Readings
- Research without a theory: working in academia / George Levine
- The scholar-teacher, the university, and society / Stanley N. Katz
- From what subject-position(s) should one address the politics of research? / Dominick Lacapra
- Cultural studies, globalization, and neo-liberalism / Roma n de la Campa Part 2. The politics of interdisciplinarity. Less disciplinary than thou: criticism and the conflict of the faculties / Bruce Robbins
- Shop window or laboratory: collection, collaboration, and the humanities / Jonathan Arac
- History beside the fact: what we learn from a true and exact history of Barbadoes / Myra Jehlen Part 3. Politics and pedagogy. Feminism and the institutions of intimacy / Lauren Berlant
- How can we keep on doing this?: reflections on graduate education in the humanities / Peter Brooks
- Not to hear the Italian symphony / Richard Kramer Part 4. Politics and research. Losing their edge: radical studies from the seventies to the nineties / Helene Moglen
- Dollars for scholars: the real politics of humanities scholarship and programs / Ellen Messer-Davidow
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