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Author Meets Critics: Response by Dan Wickberg, Modernism as a Category in American Intellectual History

I want to begin with a few comments about Kunal Parker’s The Turn to Process, and especially its relation to my own book, and then turn to some of the thoughtful comments and criticisms from Paul Murphy, Casey Eilbert, and Angus Burgin. My goal is to identify what I think the strengths of my book are, and where its limitations and failings lie. Parker and I have written very different kinds of books, but ones I think of as largely complementary. My aim has been comprehensive and synthetic; my book lacks the depth and analytical focus, let alone the use Read more