Erickson, Paul A. (Author)
Klein, Judy L. (Author)
Daston, Lorraine J. (Author)
Lemov, Rebecca M. (Author)
Sturm, Thomas (Author)
Gordin, Michael D. (Author)
University of Chicago Press
Physical Details: 259 pp.; ill.
Language: English
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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