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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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
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Preface and Acknowledgments; Introduction. The Struggle over Cold War Rationality; One. Enlightenment Reason, Cold War Rationality, and the Rule of Rules; Two. The Bounded Rationality of Cold War Operations Research; Three. Saving the Planet from Nuclear Weapons and the Human Mind; Four. "The Situation" in the Cold War Behavioral Sciences; Five. World in a Matrix; Six. The Collapse of Cold War Rationality; Epilogue. Cold War Rationality after the Cold War; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

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