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Uncovers long-ignored political themes?ideology, propaganda, mind-control, and Orwellian history?at work within the pages of The Structure of Scientific Revolutions.

The Politics of Paradigms shows that America''s most famous and influential book about science, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions of 1962, was inspired and shaped by Thomas Kuhn''s political interests, his relationship with the influential cold warrior James Bryant Conant, and America''s McCarthy-era struggle to resist and defeat totalitarian ideology. Through detailed archival research, Reisch shows how Kuhn''s well-known theories of paradigms, crises, and scientific revolutions emerged from within urgent political worries-on campus and in the public sphere-about the invisible, unconscious powers of ideology, language, and history to shape the human mind and its experience of the world.

The Politics of Paradigms Thomas S Kuhn James B

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      Publisher: State University of New York Press
      Publication Date: 1/2/2020 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9781438473666, 978-1438473666
      ISBN10: 1438473664

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      Uncovers long-ignored political themes?ideology, propaganda, mind-control, and Orwellian history?at work within the pages of The Structure of Scientific Revolutions.

      The Politics of Paradigms shows that America''s most famous and influential book about science, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions of 1962, was inspired and shaped by Thomas Kuhn''s political interests, his relationship with the influential cold warrior James Bryant Conant, and America''s McCarthy-era struggle to resist and defeat totalitarian ideology. Through detailed archival research, Reisch shows how Kuhn''s well-known theories of paradigms, crises, and scientific revolutions emerged from within urgent political worries-on campus and in the public sphere-about the invisible, unconscious powers of ideology, language, and history to shape the human mind and its experience of the world.

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