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- Autorius: John McCumber
- Leidėjas: The University of Chicago Press
- Metai: 2016
- Puslapiai: 224
- ISBN: 9780226396415
- ISBN-10: 022639641X
- ISBN-13: 9780226396415
- Formatas: ePub
- Kalba: Anglų
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This fascinating study reveals the extensive influence of Cold War politics on academia, philosophical inquiry, and the course of intellectual history.From the rise of popular 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 how the path of American philosophy was altered to follow a political agenda.
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 conservative efforts that, by 1960, had all but banished existentialism and pragmatism--not to mention Marxism--from philosophy departments across the country. These paradigms were replaced with what McCumber calls Cold War philosophy, ideas that valorized scientific objectivity and free markets and which downplayed the anti-theistic implications of modern thought. As McCumber shows, the effects of this trend can still be seen at American universities today.
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- Autorius: John McCumber
- Leidėjas: The University of Chicago Press
- Metai: 2016
- Puslapiai: 224
- ISBN: 9780226396415
- ISBN-10: 022639641X
- ISBN-13: 9780226396415
- Formatas: ePub
- Kalba: Anglų
From the rise of popular 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 how the path of American philosophy was altered to follow a political agenda.
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 conservative efforts that, by 1960, had all but banished existentialism and pragmatism--not to mention Marxism--from philosophy departments across the country. These paradigms were replaced with what McCumber calls Cold War philosophy, ideas that valorized scientific objectivity and free markets and which downplayed the anti-theistic implications of modern thought. As McCumber shows, the effects of this trend can still be seen at American universities today.
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