To think critically about disciplinesas rich intellectual traditions andsupple devices for producing new knowledge rather than as restraining ordersand fusty co... » 

To think critically about disciplinesas rich intellectual traditions andsupple devices for producing new knowledge rather than as restraining ordersand fusty conventionsrequires not only uncommon discrimination but also agood measure of contrarian brilliance. Disciplinarity at the Fin de Sieclefits that bill remarkably. The essays collected here will serve to remindreaders where our disciplines came from and why they remain on balance goodthings to think with.Michael Berube «