| Contents |
On 'PC' and related matters / Richard Ohmann -- The Campaign against political correctness: what's really at stake / Joan Wallach Scott -- Truth, justice, and the American way: a response to Joan Wallach Scott / Michael Bérubé -- The Great PC scare: tyrannies of the left, rhetoric of the right / James Neilson -- 'Political correctness': a class issue / Tom Lewis -- What was 'political correctness'? Race, the right, and managerial democracy in the humanities / Christopher Newfield -- The War against theory / Michael Sprinker -- We've done it to ourselves: the critique of truth and the attack on theory / Reed Way Dasenbrock -- Theory against itself: new historicism's return to practice / John S. Howard and James M. Lang -- 'Not theory ... but a sense of theory': the superaddressee and the contexts of Eden / Frank Farmer -- Of safe(r) spaces and 'right' speech: feminist histories, loyalties, theories, and the dangers of critique / Darlene M. Hantzis and Devoney Looser -- Russell Jacoby, antiprofessionalism, and the politics of cultural nostalgia / Barry W. Sarchett -- Othering the academy: professionalism and multiculturalism / Bruce Robbins -- Academics as public intellectuals: rethinking classroom politics / Henry A. Giroux -- A Paradox of the culture war / Gerald Graff. |
