Ebook: The Philosophy Scare : The Politics of Reason in the Early Cold War
Author: John McCumber
- Tags: University of California Los Angeles -- Department of Philosophy -- History -- 20th century, Philosophy -- Study and teaching -- Political aspects -- California -- History -- 20th century, Academic freedom -- California -- History -- 20th century, Philosophy -- Political aspects -- United States -- History -- 20th century, Cold War, United States -- Intellectual life -- 20th century, Academic freedom, Intellectual life, Philosophy -- Political aspects, California, United States
- Year: 2017
- Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
- City: California., Array
- Language: English
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From the rise of formalist 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 Read more...