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Daedalus articles from January 1997
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Daedalus archives from January 1997
How did economics get that way and what way did it get? (evolution of economics into a more technical discipline)(American Academic Culture in Transformation: Fifty Years, Four Disciplines)
January 1, 1997... My exposure to economics as a discipline began in September 1940 when I enrolled as a freshman in the elementary economics course at Harvard College. I will try in this essay to make sense of the evolution of economics over a span of more than...
Reconfigurations in American academic economics: a general practitioner's perspective. (includes related article on business relationships)(American Academic Culture in Transformation: Fifty Years, Four Disciplines)
January 1, 1997... Let us proceed from Jacob Viner's oft-quoted dictum: "Economics is what economists do." A fair number of those who are paid to "do economics" do so by representing the discipline to students in liberal arts colleges. I write from the vantage...
The history of literary criticism. (includes related article on the documentary approach to criticism)(American Academic Culture in Transformation: Fifty Years, Four Disciplines)
January 1, 1997... During the last decade many academic literary critics have developed an intense interest in the history of their discipline. No longer content to know merely what previous critics wrote, they explore the institutional and broader political...
Tracking English and American literary and cultural criticism.(American Academic Culture in Transformation: Fifty Years, Four Disciplines)
January 1, 1997... Intellectual historians Richard Fox and James Kloppenberg emphasize in A Companion to American Thought that many innovations in American studies, such as the dismantling of disciplinary boundaries and the focus on gender, class, and ethnoracial...
Trends in recent American philosophy.(American Academic Culture in Transformation: Fifty Years, Four Disciplines)
January 1, 1997... The story of American Philosophy during the second half of this century is by and large the story of analytical philosophy and its transformations. This is not to say that other approaches to philosophy have not had their followers: Dewey has...
The disciplines and the identity debates, 1970-1995.(American Academic Culture in Transformation: Fifty Years, Four Disciplines)
January 1, 1997... In 1992 Critical Inquiry published a special issue on "Identities." In that same year another transdisciplinary journal, October, ran a special issue on "The Identity Question." The simultaneous appearance of these special issues is an emblem...
The influence of landscape upon the poet. (speech made by T.S. Eliot)(includes related article on psychological history)(American Academic Culture in Transformation: Fifty Years, Four Disciplines)(Transcript)
January 1, 1997... When I was informed of the time placed at my disposal for what I might have to say on this occasion, I was seized with apprehension. I most heartily wished to signify my appreciation of the honour which has been accorded to me by the Academy. Any...