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The Politics of Paradigms - George A. Reisch

The Politics of Paradigms

Thomas S. Kuhn, James B. Conant, and the Cold War “Struggle for Men’s Minds”
Buch | Hardcover
502 Seiten
2019
State University of New York Press (Verlag)
978-1-4384-7367-3 (ISBN)
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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.

George A. Reisch is managing editor of The Monist and series editor for Open Court Publishing Company's series Popular Culture and Philosophy.

List of Illustrations
Preface
Bombs and Books: An Introduction
Timeline of Events and Documents
Cast of Additional Characters

Part I. War and Crisis

1. Progress and Revolution in the Suburbs of New York

2. War and General Education at Harvard

3. History of Science in a Divided World

Part II. “The Struggle for Men’s Minds”

4. The Cold War Conversions of Thomas S. Kuhn and James Bryant Conant

5. Sidney Hook and the Anticommunist Inquisition

6. Brainwashing, or the Structure of Philosophical Revolutions

7. The Necessary Dangers of Consensus and Unity

Part III. The Cold War Origins of The Structure of Scientific Revolutions

8. The Language, Psychology, and Psychoanalysis of Scientific “Reorientations”

9. “Attention Senator McCarthy”: The Perils of Methodology in Totalitarian Times

10. Ideology and Revolution in the International Encyclopedia of Unified Science

11. Progress, Ideology, and “Writing History Backwards”

12. From “Ideology” and “Consensus” to Paradigmania

Part IV. The New World of Paradigms

13. “If Mr. Kuhn Is Right . . .”: Paradigms and Dogmas in Cold War Science Education

14. The Magic of Paradigms

15. Spies, Prisons, Mobs, Bandwagons, and Beasts

16. The Thomas Kuhn Experience

17. A Revolution and a New Ideology

Epilogue: Writing and Rewriting History

Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie SUNY series in American Philosophy and Cultural Thought
Zusatzinfo Total Illustrations: 36
Verlagsort Albany, NY
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Gewicht 227 g
Themenwelt Geschichte Allgemeine Geschichte Neuzeit (bis 1918)
Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte Regional- / Ländergeschichte
Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie
Naturwissenschaften
ISBN-10 1-4384-7367-2 / 1438473672
ISBN-13 978-1-4384-7367-3 / 9781438473673
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