Thomas Bender is University Professor of the Humanities and Professor of History at New York University. He is the author of Intellect and Public Life; New York Intellect; and Community and Social Change in America. Carl E. Schorske is Professor of History Emeritus at Princeton University. He is the author of Fin-de-Siècle Vienna and German Social Democracy, 1905 -1917. Together, Bender and Schorske edited Budapest and New York: Studies in Metropolitan Transformation, 1870-1930.

• Foreword by Stephen Graubard vii Acknowledgments xi INTRODUCTION Thomas Bender and Carl E. Schorske 3 PART I HISTORICAL CONTEXT Thomas Bender Politics, Intellect, and the American University, 1945-1995 17 PART II TRAJECTORIES OF INTRA-DISCIPLINARY CHANGE: PARTICIPANT PERSPECTIVES ECONOMICS Robert M. Solow How Did Economics Get That Way and What Way Did It Get? 57 David M. Kreps Economics--The Current Position 77 William J. Barber Reconfigurations in American Academic Economics: A General Practitioner's Perspective 105 ENGLISH M. H. Abrams The Transformation of English Studies, 1930-1995 123 Catherine Gallagher The History of Literary Criticism 151 Jose David Saldivar Tracking English and American Literary and Cultural Criticism 173 PHILOSOPHY Hilary Putnam A Half Century of Philosophy, Viewed From Within 193 Alexander Nehamas Trends in Recent American Philosophy 227 POLITICAL SCIENCE Charles E. Lindblom Political Science in the 1940s and 1950s 243 Rogers M. Smith Still Blowing in the Wind: The American Quest for a Democratic, Scientific Political Science 271 PART III INTER-DISCIPLINARY COMPARISONS: HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES Carl E. Schorske The New Rigorism in the Human Sciences, 1940-1960 309 Ira Katznelson From the Street to the Lecture Hall: The 1960s 331 David A. Hollinger The Disciplines and the Identity Debates, 1970-1995 353

Thomas Bender is University Professor of the Humanities and Professor of History at New York University. He is the author of Intellect and Public Life; New York Intellect; and Community and Social Change in America. Carl E. Schorske is Professor of History Emeritus at Princeton University. He is the author of Fin-de-Siècle Vienna and German Social Democracy, 1905 -1917. Together, Bender and Schorske edited Budapest and New York: Studies in Metropolitan Transformation, 1870-1930.

• Foreword by Stephen Graubard vii Acknowledgments xi INTRODUCTION Thomas Bender and Carl E. Schorske 3 PART I HISTORICAL CONTEXT Thomas Bender Politics, Intellect, and the American University, 1945-1995 17 PART II TRAJECTORIES OF INTRA-DISCIPLINARY CHANGE: PARTICIPANT PERSPECTIVES ECONOMICS Robert M. Solow How Did Economics Get That Way and What Way Did It Get? 57 David M. Kreps Economics--The Current Position 77 William J. Barber Reconfigurations in American Academic Economics: A General Practitioner's Perspective 105 ENGLISH M. H. Abrams The Transformation of English Studies, 1930-1995 123 Catherine Gallagher The History of Literary Criticism 151 Jose David Saldivar Tracking English and American Literary and Cultural Criticism 173 PHILOSOPHY Hilary Putnam A Half Century of Philosophy, Viewed From Within 193 Alexander Nehamas Trends in Recent American Philosophy 227 POLITICAL SCIENCE Charles E. Lindblom Political Science in the 1940s and 1950s 243 Rogers M. Smith Still Blowing in the Wind: The American Quest for a Democratic, Scientific Political Science 271 PART III INTER-DISCIPLINARY COMPARISONS: HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES Carl E. Schorske The New Rigorism in the Human Sciences, 1940-1960 309 Ira Katznelson From the Street to the Lecture Hall: The 1960s 331 David A. Hollinger The Disciplines and the Identity Debates, 1970-1995 353

Thomas Bender is University Professor of the Humanities and Professor of History at New York University. He is the author of Intellect and Public Life; New York Intellect; and Community and Social Change in America. Carl E. Schorske is Professor of History Emeritus at Princeton University. He is the author of Fin-de-Siècle Vienna and German Social Democracy, 1905 -1917. Together, Bender and Schorske edited Budapest and New York: Studies in Metropolitan Transformation, 1870-1930.

• Foreword by Stephen Graubard vii Acknowledgments xi INTRODUCTION Thomas Bender and Carl E. Schorske 3 PART I HISTORICAL CONTEXT Thomas Bender Politics, Intellect, and the American University, 1945-1995 17 PART II TRAJECTORIES OF INTRA-DISCIPLINARY CHANGE: PARTICIPANT PERSPECTIVES ECONOMICS Robert M. Solow How Did Economics Get That Way and What Way Did It Get? 57 David M. Kreps Economics--The Current Position 77 William J. Barber Reconfigurations in American Academic Economics: A General Practitioner's Perspective 105 ENGLISH M. H. Abrams The Transformation of English Studies, 1930-1995 123 Catherine Gallagher The History of Literary Criticism 151 Jose David Saldivar Tracking English and American Literary and Cultural Criticism 173 PHILOSOPHY Hilary Putnam A Half Century of Philosophy, Viewed From Within 193 Alexander Nehamas Trends in Recent American Philosophy 227 POLITICAL SCIENCE Charles E. Lindblom Political Science in the 1940s and 1950s 243 Rogers M. Smith Still Blowing in the Wind: The American Quest for a Democratic, Scientific Political Science 271 PART III INTER-DISCIPLINARY COMPARISONS: HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES Carl E. Schorske The New Rigorism in the Human Sciences, 1940-1960 309 Ira Katznelson From the Street to the Lecture Hall: The 1960s 331 David A. Hollinger The Disciplines and the Identity Debates, 1970-1995 353