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050 00 $aB52.3.U6$bM33 2016
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100 1 $aMcCumber, John,$eauthor.
245 14 $aThe philosophy scare :$bthe politics of reason in the early Cold War /$cJohn McCumber.
264 1 $aChicago :$bThe University of Chicago Press,$c2016.
300 $axiii, 218 pages ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$2rdacarrier
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 195-207) and index.
505 0 $aThe cudgels of freedom: Cold War philosophy's theory of objects -- Academic stealth in the early Cold War -- Reductionism as the favored form of naturalism -- The carrots of reason: Cold War philosophy's theory of subjects -- The politics of rational choice -- Rational choice philosophy as "scientific philosophy" -- Purifying the academy -- Organizing academic repression: the California plan -- Rationalizing academic repression: the Allen formula -- Epilogue: the two fates of Cold War philosophy.
520 8 $aFrom 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 midcentury America, he shows just how radically politics can alter the course of intellectual history. 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 hugely successful conservative efforts that, by 1960, had all but banished the existentialist and pragmatist paradigms not to mention Marxism from philosophy departments all across the country, replacing them with an approach that valorized scientific objectivity and free markets and which downplayed the anti-theistic implications of modern thought. As he shows, while there have since been many instances of definitive and even explosive rejection of this conservative trend, its effects can still be seen at American universities today.
650 0 $aPhilosophy$xStudy and teaching$xPolitical aspects$zCalifornia$xHistory$y20th century.
650 0 $aAcademic freedom$zCalifornia$xHistory$y20th century.
610 20 $aUniversity of California, Los Angeles.$bDepartment of Philosophy$xHistory$y20th century.
650 0 $aPhilosophy$xPolitical aspects$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century.
650 0 $aCold War.
650 0 $aRational choice theory$xPolitical aspects$zUnited States.
650 0 $aNaturalism$xPolitical aspects$zUnited States.
651 0 $aUnited States$xIntellectual life$y20th century$xPolitical aspects.
852 00 $bglx$hB52.3.U6$iM33 2016