Social Theory and American Insitutions: Epidoses in Modern American Intellectual History

FAIN: FS-10224-76

Regents of the University of California, Irvine (Irvine, CA 92617-3066)
John P. Diggins (Project Director: January 1976 to present)

To explore the relationship between the social theorist and American institutions and values. The seminar will examine the major work of a select number of great American literary intellectuals and social philosophers. Participants in the seminar will be provided with new interpretative organizational themes and new modes of analysis in critical theory which they can apply to their own teaching of American history.