1966 Award. About the Life of the Mind in America

History as Explanation: Annals of American Political Economy

“…That is, the organicist imagines history as a process informed by heretofore unrecognized principles, by ideas that are portrayed as the links in a series of seemingly dispersed events. Examples include some traditional intellectual histories, founded in notions of continuity (e.g., Miller 1965), as well as the discontinuous, structuralist histories that follow the exemplar of Thomas Kuhn (1970). An emphasis on the integrative process-for Kuhn, it was, of course, the sociopolitical process of paradigm shifts-focuses more attention on the process than on individual events and, hence, the approach appears idealist or abstract.…”

The practice of teaching in the era of globalisation

“…Apocalyptic hopes of eventual transformations owed more to the downside of North American Puritanism, to Christian revivalism, to the thousands who barked, shrieked, laughed and cried out at Cane Ridge in that early (1801) display of fundamentalist millenialism. 4 That was the middle 1970s, a bit after die radical innovativeness of the late 1960s and early 1970s. Innovation passed from the hands of radical practitioners into that of governments.…”