10. FROM “TALL IDEAS DANCING” TO TRUMP’S TWITTER RANTING Reckoning the Intellectual History of Conservatism

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Introduction. INTELLECTUAL HISTORY FOR COMPLICATED TIMES 1
4. Section I. MAPPING AMERICAN IDEAS
5. 1. WINGSPREAD: So What? 11
6. 2. ON LEGAL FUNDAMENTALISM 21
7. 3. FREEDOM’S JUST ANOTHER WORD? The Intellectual Trajectories of the 1960s 38
8. Section II. IDEAS AND AMERICAN IDENTITIES
9. 4. PHILOSOPHY VS. PHILOSOPHERS A Problem in American Intellectual History 55
10. 5. THE PRICE OF RECOGNITION Race and the Making of the Modern University 71
11. 6. THANKS, GENDER! An Intellectual History of the Gym 86
12. 7. PARALLEL EMPIRES Transnationalism and Intellectual History in the Western Hemisphere 104
13. Section III. DANGEROUS IDEAS
14. 8. TOWARD A NEW, OLD LIBERAL IMAGINATION From Obama to Niebuhr and Back Again 119
15. 9. AGAINST THE LIBERAL TRADITION An Intellectual History of the American Left 132
16. 10. FROM “TALL IDEAS DANCING” TO TRUMP’S TWITTER RANTING Reckoning the Intellectual History of Conservatism 146
17. 11. THE REINVENTION OF ENTREPRENEURSHIP 163
18. Section IV. CONTESTED IDEAS
19. 12. WAR AND AMERICAN THOUGHT Finding a Nation through Killing and Dying 183
20. 13. UNITED STATES IN THE WORLD The Significance of an Isolationist Tradition 198
21. 14. REINSCRIBING RELIGIOUS AUTHENTICITY Religion, Secularism, and the Perspectival Character of Intellectual History 223
22. 15. “THE ENTIRE THING WAS A FRAUD” Christianity, Freethought, and African American Culture 239
23. Section V. IDEAS AND CONSEQUENCES
24. 16. AGAINST AND BEYOND HOFSTADTER Revising the Study of Anti-intellectualism 253
25. 17. CULTURE AS INTELLECTUAL HISTORY Broadening a Field of Study in the Wake of the Cultural Turn 271
26. 1.8 ON THE POLITICS OF KNOWLEDGE Science, Conflict, Power 285
27. CONCLUSION. The Idea of Historical Context and the Intellectual Historian 305
28. Contributors 323
29. Acknowledgments 327
30. Index 329