More Conservative Place Intellectual Culture in the Bush Era

Name: More Conservative Place Intellectual Culture in the Bush Era
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ISBN: 9781611683691

ISBN-10: 1611683696

ISBN-13: 9781611683691

Edition: 2013

Authors: Paul A. Bove

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Identifying the historical antecedents of President George W. Bush's imperial ambitions and the sources of the reactionary thought and politics that underlie them, Paul A. Bove shows how neoconservatism represents a singular danger to democracy. At the same time, he criticizes the equally disheartening inability of the academic left to oppose neoconservatives and its tendency to mirror their views instead. Divorced from historical knowledge and intellectual rigor, the neocon voices embody the right-wing consequences of cultural and historical amnesia that profits from ignorance and conformity. Exposing the threats to national survival inherent in the combination of right-wing politics and…

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List price: $40.00
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Dartmouth College
Publication date: 1/8/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 280
Size: 0.59" wide x 0.89" long x 0.07" tall
Weight: 0.858
Language: English



Preface


Acknowledgments



A Retrospective Introduction



American Universalism and Its Democracy



Area Studies Revisited



The American State Allegorizes the Ruins: Henry Adams and Counterstrategy



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


Notes


Index