How Reason Almost Lost Its Mind: The Strange Career of Cold War Rationality - Paperback
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Language:EnglishPublisher:University of Chicago PressISBN-13:9780226324159ISBN-10:022632415XUPC:9780226324159Book Category:History, Business & Economics, ScienceBook Subcategory:United States, Economic History, HistoryBook Topic:20th CenturySize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.61 inchesWeight:0.8708Product ID:SCQSQ8JZHJ
How Reason Almost Lost Its Mind: The Strange Career of Cold War Rationality
In the United States at the height of the Cold War, roughly between the end of World War II and the early 1980s, a new project of redefining rationality commanded the attention of sharp minds, powerful politicians, wealthy foundations, and top military brass. Its home was the human sciences-psychology, sociology, political science, and economics, among others-and its participants enlisted in an...
Language:EnglishPublisher:University of Chicago PressISBN-13:9780226324159ISBN-10:022632415XUPC:9780226324159Book Category:History, Business & Economics, ScienceBook Subcategory:United States, Economic History, HistoryBook Topic:20th CenturySize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.61 inchesWeight:0.8708Product ID:SCQSQ8JZHJ
Paul Erickson is assistant professor of history and science in society at Wesleyan University and lives in Middletown, CT. Judy L. Klein is professor of economics at Mary Baldwin College and lives in Staunton, VA. Lorraine Daston is director of the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science and visiting professor in the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago. She lives in...
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