How Reason Almost Lost Its Mind: The Strange Career of Cold War Rationality by Thomas Sturm, Michael D. Gordin, Judy L. Klein, Rebecca Lemov, Lorraine Daston, Paul Erickson

How Reason Almost Lost Its Mind: The Strange Career of Cold War Rationality

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

272 pages first pub 2011 (editions)

nonfiction history science informative slow-paced

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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 mil...

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