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AMERICAN LABYRINTH AMERICAN LABYRINTH Intellectual History for Complicated Times Edited by Raymond Haberski Jr. and Andrew Hartman CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS I THACA AND LONDON Copyright © 2018 by Cornell University All rights reserved. Except for brief quotations in a review, this book, or parts thereof, must not be reproduced in any form without permission in writing from the publisher. For information, address Cornell University Press, Sage House, 512 East State Street, Ithaca, New York 14850. Visit our website at cornellpress.cornell.edu. First published 2018 by Cornell University Press Printed in the United States of America Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Names: Haberski, Raymond J., 1968– editor. | Hartman, Andrew, editor. Title: American labyrinth : intellectual history for complicated times / edited by Raymond Haberski Jr. and Andrew Hartman. Description: Ithaca [New York] : Cornell University Press, 2018. | Includes bibliographical references and index. Identifiers: LCCN 2018031296 (print) | LCCN 2018032447 (ebook) | ISBN 9781501730221 (pdf) | ISBN 9781501730238 (ret) | ISBN 9781501730214 | ISBN 9781501730214 (cloth ; alk. paper) | ISBN 9781501730986 (pbk. ; alk. paper) Subjects: LCSH: United States—Historiography. | United States—Intellectual life. Classification: LCC E175 (ebook) | LCC E175 .A4545 2018 (print) | DDC 973—dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2018031296 We dedicate this book to Charlie and Leo, our history teachers. Contents Introduction: Intellectual History for Complicated Times Raymond Haberski Jr. and Andrew Hartman 1 Section I MAPPING AMERICAN IDEAS 1. Wingspread: So What? James Livingston 11 2. On Legal Fundamentalism David Sehat 21 3. Freedom’s Just Another Word? The Intellectual Trajectories of the 1960s K evin M. Schultz 38 Section II IDEAS AND AMERICAN IDENTITIES 4. Philosophy vs. Philosophers: A Problem in American Intellectual History Amy Kittelstrom 55 5. The Price of Recognition: Race and the Making of the Modern University Jonathan Holloway 71 6. Thanks, Gender! An Intellectual History of the Gym Natalia Mehlman Petrzela 86 7. Parallel Empires: Transnationalism and Intellectual History in the Western Hemisphere Ruben Flores 104 Section III DANGEROUS IDEAS 8. Toward a New, Old Liberal Imagination: From Obama to Niebuhr and Back Again Kevin Mattson 119 9. Against the Liberal Tradition: An Intellectual History of the American Left Andrew Hartman 132 10. From “Tall Ideas Dancing” to Trump’s Twitter Ranting: Reckoning the Intellectual History of Conservatism Lisa Szefel 146 11. The Reinvention of Entrepreneurship Angus Burgin 163 viii CONTENTS Section IV CONTESTED IDEAS 12. War and American Thought: Finding a Nation through Killing and Dying Raymond Haberski Jr . 183 13. United States in the World: The Significance of an Isolationist Tradition Christopher McKnight Nichols 198 14. Reinscribing Religious Authenticity: Religion, Secularism, and the Perspectival Character of Intellectual History K. Healan Gaston 223 15. “The Entire Thing Was a Fraud”: Christianity, Freethought, and African American Culture Christopher Cameron 239 Section V IDEAS AND CONSEQUENCES 16. Against and beyond Hofstadter: Revising the Study of Anti-intellectualism Tim Lacy 253 17. Culture as Intellectual History: Broadening a Field of Study in the Wake of the Cultural Turn Benjamin L. Alpers 271 18. On the Politics of Knowledge: Science, Conflict, Power Andrew Jewett 285 Conclusion: The Idea of Historical Context and the Intellectual Historian Daniel Wickberg 305 Contributors 323 A cknowledgments 327 Index 329 AMERICAN LABYRINTH
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