Anthony Hutchison

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Research Summary

My current research will attempt to re-interpret the relationship between philosophy and politics in the United States since World War II by looking at the relationship between the pragmatist… read more

Recent Publications

• HUTCHISON, A., 2013. Cold War Humanism and Beyond: Postmodern Subjectivity and Humanist Literary Critique in Rorty and Eggers. In: ROBERTO CANTÚ, ed., Humanism, Critique, and Modernity: Legacies and Challenges for the 21st Century Cambridge Scholars Press. (In Press.)
• A HUTCHISON, 2010. “‘Following the Ghost’: The Psychogeography of Alternative Country”. In: MARÍA DEL PILAR BLANCO & ESTHER PEEREN, ed., Popular Ghosts: The Haunted Spaces of Everyday Culture Continuum. 268-281
• HUTCHISON, A., 2009. "All the Men of Great Affairs": The Barnard Statue, Manchester Liberalism, and Lincoln Intellectual History American Literary History. VOL 21(NUMBER 4), 793-809
• HUTCHISON, A., 2007. Writing the Republic: Liberalism and Morality in American Political Fiction New York: Columbia University Press.

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Current Research

My current research will attempt to re-interpret the relationship between philosophy and politics in the United States since World War II by looking at the relationship between the pragmatist philosophical tradition and cold war liberalism. It will focus on figures such as John Dewey, Sidney Hook, Jurgen Habermas, Richard Rorty and Richard Bernstein.

Past Research

My previous research was a study of American political fiction. It involved analyses of several major works by Gore Vidal, Lionel Trilling, Russell Banks and Philip Roth.

Future Research

I have written on American music and have also recently completed work on some contemporary American writers (David Foster Wallace, Benjamin Kunkel, Dave Eggers). I have also published on the status and treatment of Abraham Lincoln within US intellectual history and, at present, I am currently working on another related Lincoln piece. I may consider pursuing one or more of these areas of research further in future and would wecome the opportunity to supervise postgraduate students on these or related topics.

• HUTCHISON, A., 2013. Cold War Humanism and Beyond: Postmodern Subjectivity and Humanist Literary Critique in Rorty and Eggers. In: ROBERTO CANTÚ, ed., Humanism, Critique, and Modernity: Legacies and Challenges for the 21st Century Cambridge Scholars Press. (In Press.)
• A HUTCHISON, 2010. “‘Following the Ghost’: The Psychogeography of Alternative Country”. In: MARÍA DEL PILAR BLANCO & ESTHER PEEREN, ed., Popular Ghosts: The Haunted Spaces of Everyday Culture Continuum. 268-281
• HUTCHISON, A., 2009. "All the Men of Great Affairs": The Barnard Statue, Manchester Liberalism, and Lincoln Intellectual History American Literary History. VOL 21(NUMBER 4), 793-809
• HUTCHISON, A., 2007. Writing the Republic: Liberalism and Morality in American Political Fiction New York: Columbia University Press.
• HUTCHISON, A., 2007. Representative Man: John Brown and the Politics of Redemption in Russell Banks’s <i>Cloudsplitter</i> Journal of American Studies. 41(1), 67-82
• HUTCHISON, A, 2006. Freedom, Necessity, Judgment:: Trilling, Arendt and 9/11 Liberalism Comparative American Studies. 4(1), 67-84
• HUTCHISON, A., 2005. 'Purity is Petrefaction': Liberalism and Betrayal in Philip Roth’s <i>I Married A Communist”</i> Rethinking History: The Journal of Theory and Practice. 9(2-3), 315-327