How Reason Almost Lost Its Mind

The Strange Career Of Cold War Rationality

by Judy L. Klein, Lorraine Daston, Michael Gordin, Thomas Sturm, Rebecca Lemov e Paul Erickson
language: english
Publisher: THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS, November of 2013 ‧
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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. The authors illuminate what it meant to be rational in the age of nuclear brinkmanship.

How Reason Almost Lost Its Mind

The Strange Career Of Cold War Rationality

by Judy L. Klein, Lorraine Daston, Michael Gordin, Thomas Sturm, Rebecca Lemov e Paul Erickson

Property Description
ISBN: 9780226046631
Publisher: THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS
Release Date: November of 2013
Language: English
Dimensions: 152 x 229 x 20 mm
Cover: Hardcover
Pages: 272
Format: Book
Categories: Books in English > History > History of America
EAN: 9780226046631