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The Politics of Paradigms: Thomas S. Kuhn, James B. Conant, and the Cold War Struggle for Men's Minds

The Politics of Paradigms: Thomas S. Kuhn, James B. Conant, and the Cold War Struggle for Men's Minds

Reisch, George a.

Paperback

Series: Suny American Philosophy and Cultural Thought

PhilosophyBiographies General20th Century United States History

ISBN10: 1438473664
ISBN13: 9781438473666
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: Jan 2 2020
Pages: 502
Weight: 1.60
Height: 1.40 Width: 6.00 Depth: 8.90
Language: English

Uncovers long-ignored political themes--ideology, propaganda, mind-control, and Orwellian history--at work within the pages of The Structure of Scientific Revolutions.

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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