The Philosophy Scare: The Politics of Reason in the Early Cold War

by John McCumber

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 midcentury America, he shows just how...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 022639638X
• ISBN13: 9780226396385
• Release Date: September 2016
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.1"