How Reason Almost Lost Its Mind: The Strange Career of Cold War Rationality

by Michael D. Gordin, Paul Erickson, Lorraine Daston, et al.

Book Overview

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 intellectual campaign to figure out what rationality...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 022632415X
• ISBN13: 9780226324159
• Release Date: November 2015
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"