George A. Reisch

The Politics of Paradigms (eBook, ePUB)

Thomas S. Kuhn, James B. Conant, and the Cold War "Struggle for Men's Minds"

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The Politics of Paradigms shows that America's most famous and influential book about science, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions of 1962, was inspired and shaped by Thomas Kuhn's political interests, his relationship with the influential cold warrior James Bryant Conant, and America's McCarthy-era struggle to resist and defeat totalitarian ideology. Through detailed archival research, Reisch shows how Kuhn's well-known theories of paradigms, crises, and scientific revolutions emerged from within urgent political worries-on campus and in the public sphere-about the invisible, unconscious powers of ideology, language, and history to shape the human mind and its experience of the world.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: State University of New York Press
• Seitenzahl: 502
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. April 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781438473680
• Artikelnr.: 60500596

Autorenporträt

George A. Reisch is managing editor of The Monist and series editor for Open Court Publishing Company's series Popular Culture and Philosophy.