The Strange Career of Cold War Rationality
by
Paul Erickson, Judy L. Klein, Lorraine Daston
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2013
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,...