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The Philosophy Scare

- The Politics of Reason in the Early Cold War
Af: John McCumber Engelsk Hardback

The Philosophy Scare

- The Politics of Reason in the Early Cold War
Af: John McCumber Engelsk Hardback
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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, was hit hard by the Red Scare. Detailing the immense political pressures that reshaped philosophy departments in midcentury America, he shows just how radically politics can alter the course of intellectual history. McCumber begins with the story of Max Otto, whose appointment to the UCLA Philosophy Department in 1947 was met with widespread protest charging him as an atheist. Drawing on Otto's case, McCumber details the hugely successful conservative efforts that, by 1960, had all but banished the existentialist and pragmatist paradigms not to mention Marxism from philosophy departments all across the country, replacing them with an approach that valorized scientific objectivity and free markets and which downplayed the anti-theistic implications of modern thought. As he shows, while there have since been many instances of definitive and even explosive rejection of this conservative trend, its effects can still be seen at American universities today.
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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, was hit hard by the Red Scare. Detailing the immense political pressures that reshaped philosophy departments in midcentury America, he shows just how radically politics can alter the course of intellectual history. McCumber begins with the story of Max Otto, whose appointment to the UCLA Philosophy Department in 1947 was met with widespread protest charging him as an atheist. Drawing on Otto's case, McCumber details the hugely successful conservative efforts that, by 1960, had all but banished the existentialist and pragmatist paradigms not to mention Marxism from philosophy departments all across the country, replacing them with an approach that valorized scientific objectivity and free markets and which downplayed the anti-theistic implications of modern thought. As he shows, while there have since been many instances of definitive and even explosive rejection of this conservative trend, its effects can still be seen at American universities today.
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Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 224
ISBN-13: 9780226396385
Indbinding: Hardback
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ISBN-10: 022639638X
Kategori: Moderne filosofi: efter 1800
Udg. Dato: 15 sep 2016
Længde: 23mm
Bredde: 237mm
Højde: 165mm
Forlag: The University of Chicago Press
Oplagsdato: 15 sep 2016
Forfatter(e): John McCumber
Forfatter(e) John McCumber

Kategori Moderne filosofi: efter 1800

ISBN-13 9780226396385

Sprog Engelsk

Indbinding Hardback

Sider 224

Udgave

Længde 23mm

Bredde 237mm

Højde 165mm

Udg. Dato 15 sep 2016

Oplagsdato 15 sep 2016

Forlag The University of Chicago Press

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