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How Reason Almost Lost Its Mind

Paperback • 2016 • 1. edition

How Reason Almost Lost Its Mind

By Paul Erickson, Judy L. Klein, Lorraine Daston, Rebecca Lemov, Thomas Sturm, Michael D. Gordin

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About the book

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--psychology, sociology, political science, and economics, among others--and its participants enlisted in an intellectual campaign to figure out what rationality should mean and how it could be deployed.

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9780226324159

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The University of Chicago Press

Published year

2016

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How Reason Almost Lost Its Mind

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Paperback

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