Bove, Paul A., 1949-

A More Conservative Place Intellectual Culture in the Bush Era / Paul A. Bove. - 1 online resource (xiv, 261 p.) - Re-mapping the transnational: a Dartmouth series in American studies . - Book collections on Project MUSE. .

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.

Open Access

9781611683707




Bush, George W. 1946- --Influence.


United States--Study and teaching--Political aspects.
United States--Intellectual life--21st century.


Electronic books.

E169.12 / .B685 2013

973.931