Books written by Louis Menand
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American Studies
... once going so far in his banter with the twelve-year- old daughter of one of his hosts, Tom Hughes, the author of Tom Brown's School Days, that Hughes sent a letter afterward demanding to know Holmes's intentions.
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The Free World: Art and Thought in the Cold War
Diop, Senghor, Césaire, Fanon, Abrahams, Wright, Hughes, and Baldwin were all there. 7. The 1er Congrès des Écrivains et Artistes Noirs opened on the morning of September 19, 1956, in the Amphithéâtre Descartes at the Sorbonne, ...
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American Studies
The author of The Metaphysical Club presents an intellectual and cultural history of America that draws connections between seemingly unrelated facets of American society, identifying the sources of key innovations while explaining how ...
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The Free World: Art and Thought in the Cold War
Longlisted for the 2021 National Book Award for Nonfiction The Cold War was not just a contest of power. It was also about ideas, in the broadest sense – economic...
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The Cambridge History of Literary Criticism: Volume 6, The Nineteenth Century, C.1830-1914
In the nineteenth century, literary criticism first developed into an autonomous, professional discipline in the universities. This volume provides a comprehensive and authoritative study of the vast field of literary...
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The Metaphysical Club: A Story of Ideas in America
The last section discusses some of the fundamental twentieth-century ideas they are associated with. This is a book about a way of thinking that changed American life.
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The Rise of the Research University: A Sourcebook
Enriching these texts with short but insightful essays that contextualize their importance, the editors offer an accessible portrait of the early research university, one that provides invaluable insights not only into the historical ...
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The Marketplace of Ideas: Reform and Resistance in the American University (Issues of Our Time)
... The Emergence of Professional Social Science: The American Social Science Association and the Nineteenth-Century ... Education in America (New York: W.W. Norton, 1976), and Bruce Kimball, The “True Professional Ideal” in America: A ...
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Discovering Modernism: T. S. Eliot and His Context
Shows how T S Eliot's early views on literary value and authenticity - and his later repudiation of those views - reflect the profound changes regarding the understanding of literature and its significance that occurred in the early part of ...
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The Future of Academic Freedom
The essays respond to critics of the university, but they also respond to one another: Rorty and Haskell argue about the epistemological foundations of academic freedom; Gates and Sunstein discuss the legal and educational logic of speech ...
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The Marketplace of Ideas: Reform and Resistance in the American University (Issues of Our Time)
Sparking a long-overdue debate about the future of American education, "The Marketplace of Ideas" examines traditional university institutions, assessing what is worth saving and what is not
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形而上学俱乐部
美国经历了一场内战,其政府形态却没有遭遇变革.内战期间,美国没有抛弃宪法,没有暂停选举,也没有发生政变.但从其他几乎所有方面来看,美国变成了另一个国家.战争本身没有让美国变得现代,但战争标志着现代美国的诞生.对于亲历内战的那一代人来说,战争似乎不只是民主的失败,也是文化的失败,思想的失败.创痛深沉的内战使战前的信仰和期望轰然崩塌.在战后的新世界,这些信仰显得极为过时.
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Discovering Modernism: T. S. Eliot and His Context
When Discovering Modernism was first published, it shed new and welcome light on the birth of Modernism.
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O Mundo Livre: Arte e Pensamento na Guerra Fria
... se para Greenwich Village , onde foi apresentado por Capouya ao pintor Beauford Delaney , que se tornou um amigo ... Disseres na Montanha . Por essa altura , já Baldwin adquirira uma reputação de escritor para revistas de opinião. Em ...