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How reason almost lost its mind : the strange career of Cold War rationality /

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Erickson, Paul, 1976- (Author), Klein, Judy L., 1951- (Author), Daston, Lorraine, 1951- (Author), Lemov, Rebecca M. (Rebecca Maura) (Author), Sturm, Thomas, 1967- (Author), Gordin, Michael D. (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2013.
Subjects:
Cold War.
World politics > 1945-1989.
Cold War > Philosophy.
Reason > Political aspects.
Rationalism > Political aspects.
Game theory > Political aspects.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: the struggle over Cold War rationality
  • Enlightenment reason, Cold War rationality, and the rule of rules
  • The bounded rationality of Cold War operations research
  • Saving the planet from nuclear weapons and the human mind
  • "The situation" in the Cold War behavioral sciences
  • World in a matrix
  • The collapse of Cold War rationality
  • Epilogue: Cold War rationality after the Cold War.