Acknowledgments
Part I
1. Taking the Humanities Out of the Box
2. Democracy Sets in the West: From Able Citizens to Ignorant Masses
3. The Great Divide: The Professions Against Civil Society
4. The Trouble with English: The Rise of the Professional Humanities and Their Abandonment of Civil Society
5. The Poverty of Progress: James Agee, Lionel Trilling, and the Alienation of Knowledge
Part II
6. The Wages of Theory: Isolation and Knowledge in the Humanities
7. World without End: Criticism or Creation in the Humanities?
8. Specialists with Spirit: The HumanitiesOutside the University
9. "Art Serves Love": The Arts As a Paradigm for the Humanities
10. Travels to the Heart of the Forest: Dilettantes and Professionals in the Twentieth Century
Postscript: Could Teaching, of All Things, Prove to Be Our Salvation?
Notes
Index