John McGowanJohn McGowan is the John W. and Anna H. Hanes Distinguished Professor at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.. A leading critic of postmodernism and social theories relating to literature, he is the author of Postmodernim and its Critics (Cornell UP), Hannah Arendt: A Critical Introduction (U of Minnesota P), Democracy’s Children: Intellectuals and the Rise of Cultural Politics (Cornell UP), and American Liberalism: An Interpretation for Our Time (UNC Press), and editor (with Craig Calhoun) of Hannah Arendt and the Meaning of Politics (U of Minnesota P). Read More Read Less