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the minnesota review (2012) 2012 (78): 62–82.
Published: 01 May 2012
...Francescomaria Tedesco In the interview that follows, Timothy Brennan argues that intellectual history is a dimension missing from most cultural theory. He suggests that this weakens theory, since intellectual history is not simply the frame for arguments but part of the substance of statements. He...
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the minnesota review (2024) 2024 (102): 85–107.
Published: 01 May 2024
... specific sites in the last three decades of the twentieth century advances the fields of American intellectual history and the history of higher education and, by homing in on interactions at organs of theory, reveals historical patterns usually “not straightforwardly captured” in micro- or macroscopic...
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the minnesota review (2014) 2014 (82): 151–160.
Published: 01 May 2014
...” and “external career” within the larger contexts of history and society (1959, 5). Mills characterized intellectuals not as scripters of social pol- icy but rather as implicit enablers; through the communication of this sociological imagination they made possible the reconciliation of self with society...
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the minnesota review (2024) 2024 (102): 61–70.
Published: 01 May 2024
... selected aspects and historical manifestations of the multifaceted phenomenon of academic culture wars, concluding with a brief overview of the individual contributions. [email protected] Copyright © 2024 Virginia Tech 2024 academic culture wars intellectual history history...
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the minnesota review (2014) 2014 (82): 126–150.
Published: 01 May 2014
... of not-happiness does not automatically make that neglected history intellectually superior. As alleged comedies that do not always work as comedies, both films try to compensate with laughs that often reinforce the perceived absurdity of what the mel- ancholic migrant wants to pass on. In East Is East...
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the minnesota review (2007) 2007 (69): 185–189.
Published: 01 November 2007
... and adopt the mantle of cultural criticism. Literary scholars continue to forge into many different realms of scholarly discourse, including environmental and legal studies, and cultural and intellectual history, to name a few. Maurice Lee’s Slavery, Philosophy, & American Literature, 1830...
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the minnesota review (2007) 2007 (68): 159–165.
Published: 01 May 2007
... forced, and he provides little historical detail to support his claims, he does cogently critique utopianism, an important force in modern intellectual history, not to mention political life. Turning away from Syracuse, as Lilla proposes we do, involves the recognition...
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the minnesota review (2007) 2007 (69): 71–93.
Published: 01 November 2007
.... When I came to deal with the history of criticism, it struck me immediately that there were key metaphors that distinguish one type of criticism from another. Williams It strikes me that your work is really in the history of ideas, but it’s a kind of intellectual history...
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the minnesota review (2006) 2006 (67): 65–82.
Published: 01 November 2006
... think, gosh, there’s so much more to be said. But at least I’ve said something. Williams Simone de Beauvoir is a very different book than Sexual/Textual Politics. It’s a scholarly intellectual history, and it’s a densely researched history, whereas in What Is a Woman? you return to theory...
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the minnesota review (2013) 2013 (80): 62–79.
Published: 01 May 2013
... Language Association. Her continuing and minnesota review 80 (2013) DOI 10.1215/00265667-2018361  © 2013 Virginia Tech 62 Smith Interview 63 expanding interests in epistemology, twentieth-century intellectual history, and related debates over...
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the minnesota review (2009) 2009 (71-72): 308–318.
Published: 01 May 2009
... >. Bloom Allan . Closing of the American Mind . New York : Simon and Schuster , 1987 . Chomsky Noam . The Cold War and the University: Toward An Intellectual History of the Postwar Years . New York : New Press , 1997 . Clery Suzanne Christopher Barry . “Faculty Salaries...
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the minnesota review (2007) 2007 (68): 171–174.
Published: 01 May 2007
.... Coetzee’s Narratives of Displacement, was published by Routledge in 2006. Benjamin Aldes Wurgaft is a doctoral candidate in History at the University of California, Berkeley, where he works in European intellectual history and Jewish history. His scholarly work has...
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the minnesota review (2007) 2007 (68): 125–135.
Published: 01 May 2007
... is swept off his feet by a thinker and then welcomes him into the intellectual gathering. For example, Said read Vico’s The New Science as a graduate student. What appealed to him was its argument that history is secular—made by humans, not God. One may question why a so...
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the minnesota review (2006) 2006 (65-66): 103–119.
Published: 01 November 2006
..., and in intellectual history, notably of DuBois. At the same time, he has written regularly for magazines like The Village Voice and The Progressive. He was a founding delegate of the Labor Party in 1996, and he is co-chair of its Campaign for Free Higher Ed. Reed has consistently written on race, but he...
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the minnesota review (2009) 2009 (71-72): 123–130.
Published: 01 May 2009
... people live. My version, though, is slightly different; what I mean is reporting on contemporary intellectual work, re-evaluating modern criticism, and recounting its history (similar to what another contributor here, David Downing, calls translation). I also...
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the minnesota review (2008) 2008 (70): 87–104.
Published: 01 May 2008
... a voice, but that women had a serious intellectual history. This work was being done on white women in general in the US, in the 70s and into the 80s. But onto that was grafted the sense that black women were the most marginal of the marginal. Also, in terms of American history, given...
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the minnesota review (2022) 2022 (99): 159–163.
Published: 01 November 2022
... of Outsider Theory: Intellectual Histories of Unorthodox Ideas (2018), which received the 2020 James Russell Lowell Prize from the Modern Language Association, and Surrealism and the Art of Crime (2008); he is coeditor of four other books. He is founding coeditor (with Amy J. Elias) and former editor in chief...
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the minnesota review (2009) 2009 (71-72): 180–188.
Published: 01 May 2009
... appear deeply subversive to those who think of the teaching of literature as a substitute for the teaching of theology, ethics, psychology, or intellectual history. Close reading accomplishes this often in spite of itself because it cannot fail to respond...
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the minnesota review (2005) 2005 (63-64): 159–177.
Published: 01 May 2005
... for long sessions with Joe every week, and he would talk about the profession in intellectual terms—not as gossip, but as history. Why did the profession go in this direction? Why did it hit this or that dead end? Why was Foucault important in the early 70s in this way, and then in the early 80s...
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the minnesota review (2008) 2008 (70): 207–213.
Published: 01 May 2008
... on the interrelations among philosophy, literature, culture Matei Calinescu criticism and intellectual history, though will consider articles on any Edward Casey aspect of the intermingling of discourses and disciplines...