The philosophy scare : the politics of reason in the early Cold War /
From the rise of formalist novels that championed the heroism of the individual to the proliferation of abstract art as a counter to socialist realism, the years of the Cold War had a profound impact on American intellectual life. As John McCumber shows in this fascinating account, philosophy, too,...
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Chicago :
The University of Chicago Press,
2016.
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Tabl Cynhwysion:
- The cudgels of freedom: Cold War philosophy's theory of objects
- Academic stealth in the early Cold War
- Reductionism as the favored form of naturalism
- The carrots of reason: Cold War philosophy's theory of subjects
- The politics of rational choice
- Rational choice philosophy as "scientific philosophy"
- Purifying the academy
- Organizing academic repression: the California plan
- Rationalizing academic repression: the Allen formula
- Epilogue: the two fates of Cold War philosophy.