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-psycholo...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Erickson, Paul
Otros Autores: Klein, Judy L., Daston, Lorraine, Lemov, Rebecca, Sturm, Thomas, Gordin, Michael D.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2013.
Temas:
1945-1989
Cold War > Philosophy.
Game theory > Political aspects.
Rationalism > Political aspects.
Reason > Political aspects.
World politics > 1945-1989.
Guerre froide > Philosophie.
Théorie des jeux > Aspect politique.
Rationalisme > Aspect politique.
Raison > Aspect politique.
Politique mondiale > 1945-1989.
HISTORY > World.
Rationalism > Political aspects
Reason > Political aspects
World politics
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario: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 should mean and how it could be deployed. How Reason Almost Lost Its Mind brings to life the people-Herbert Simon, Oskar Morgenstern, Herma.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (268 pages)
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780226046778
022604677X
9780226046631
022604663X

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