Daniel Bell (1919- ) -- Ruth Benedict (1887-1948) -- Marshall Berman (1940- ) -- Judith Butler (1956- ) -- Noam Chomsky (1928- ) -- Jonathan D. Culler (1944- ) -- John Dewey (1859-1952) -- W.E.B. du Bois (1868-1963) -- Barbara Ehrenreich (1941- ) -- Shoshana Felman (1942- ) -- Betty Friedan (1921- ) -- Northrop Frye (1912-1991) -- Jane Gallop (1952- ) -- Sandra M. Gilbert (1936- ) -- Paul Goodman (1911-1972) -- Gerald Graff (1937- ) -- Granville Hicks (1901-1982) -- Richard Hofstadter (1916-1970) -- bell hooks (1952- ) -- Karen Horney (1885-1952) -- Christopher Lasch (1932-1994) -- Frank Lentricchia (1940- ) -- Kate Millett (1934- ) -- W.J.T. Mitchell (1942 - ) -- Richard Rorty (1931- ) -- George Santayana (1863-1952) -- Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick (1950- ) -- Kaja Silverman (1947- ) -- Werner Sollors (1943- ) -- Gloria Steinem (1934- ) -- Thorstein Veblen (1857-1929) -- Cornel West (1953- ) -- Hayden V. White (1928- ) -- Garry Wills (1934-).
Summary
Essays on thinkers spanning a wide range of intellectual movements, schools, and concerns; theorists who shared an unspoken acceptance of American exceptionalism, implicitly celebrating its plurality and diversity and using these features to explore the uncertainties and anxieties of the culture.
Reproduction
Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mi: Gale, 2007. Available via World Wide Web.
