Time in the Ditch
American Philosophy and the McCarthy Era
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2023
Northwestern University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8101-4607-5 (ISBN)
Northwestern University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8101-4607-5 (ISBN)
Explores the effects of McCarthyism on American philosophy in the 1940s and 1950s and the possibility that the political pressures of the McCarthy era skewed the development of the discipline. What happens, McCumber asks, when events and pressures go beyond interfering with individual careers to influence the nature of a discipline itself?
In Time in the Ditch, John McCumber explores the effects of McCarthyism on American philosophy in the 1940s and 1950 and the possibility that the political pressures of the McCarthy era skewed the development of the discipline. Why was silence maintained for so long? And what happens, McCumber asks, when political events and pressures go beyond interfering with individual careers to influence the nature of a discipline itself?
In Time in the Ditch, John McCumber explores the effects of McCarthyism on American philosophy in the 1940s and 1950 and the possibility that the political pressures of the McCarthy era skewed the development of the discipline. Why was silence maintained for so long? And what happens, McCumber asks, when political events and pressures go beyond interfering with individual careers to influence the nature of a discipline itself?
John McCumber is a Distinguished Professor and Chair of the UCLA Department of Germanic Languages. He is the author of six books, including Poetic Interaction: Language, Freedom Reason; The Company of Words: Hegel, Language, and Systematic Philosophy; Metaphysics and Oppression: Heidegger’s Challenge to Western Philosophy; and Reshaping Reason: Toward a New Philosophy.
| Erscheinungsdatum | 10.07.2023 |
|---|---|
| Verlagsort | Evanston |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Gewicht | 272 g |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Geschichte der Philosophie | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie der Neuzeit | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-8101-4607-X / 081014607X |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-8101-4607-5 / 9780810146075 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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