Foreword by Diane Elam

Acknowledgments



1. Introduction

2. The Idea of Excellence

3. The Decline of the Nation-State

4. The University within the Limits of Reason

5. The University and the Idea of Culture

6. Literary Culture

7. Culture Wars and Cultural Studies

8. The Posthistorical University

9. The Time of Study: 1968

10. The Scene of Teaching

11. Dwelling in the Ruins

12. The Community of Dissensus



Notes

Index

Bill Readings was Associate Professor of Comparative Literature at the Université de Montréal.