The Politics of Research

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Edited by E. Ann Kaplan and George Levine

Rutgers University Press

Due/Published July 1997, 256 pages, paper

ISBN 0813524199

Don't miss it!! Jonathan Arac, Lauren Berlant, Peter Brooks, Roman de la Campa, Myra Jehlen, Stanley Katz, Richard Kramer, Dominick LaCapra, George Levine, Ellen Messer-Davidow, Helene Moglen, Bill Readings, and Bruce Robbins write about the current crisis in the humanities and higher education generally. They discuss the relation between politics and research, the responsibilities and possibilities of the academic intellectual, the structure of the institution of the university, the functions and acheivements of the humanities, and the development of interdisciplinarity as a catalyst for change. Here's the Table of Contents:
Readings--Theory after Theory: Institutional Questions

Levine--Research Without a Theory: Working in Academia

Katz--The Scholar Teacher, the University, and Society

LaCapra--From What Subject-Postition(s) Should One Address the Politics of Research?

de la Campa--Cultural Studies, Globalization, and Neoliberalism

Robbins--Less Disciplinary Than Thou: Criticism and the Conflict of the Faculties

Arac--Shop Window or Laboratory: Collection, Colloboration, and the Humanities

Jehlen--History Beside the Fact: What We Learn From a True and Exact History of Barbadoes

Berlant--Feminisms and Institutions of Intimacy

Brooks--How Can We Keep on Doing This?: Reflections on Graduate Education in the Humanities

Kramer--Not To Hear the Italian Symphony

Moglen--Losing Their Edge: Radical Studies from the Seventies to the Nineties

Messer-Davidow--Dollars for Scholars: The Real Politics of Humanities Scholarship and Programs