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Hardcover Time in the Ditch: American Philosophy and the McCarthy Era Book

ISBN: 0810118092

ISBN13: 9780810118096

Time in the Ditch: American Philosophy and the McCarthy Era

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In Time in the Ditch, John McCumber explores the effect of McCarthyism on American philosophy in the 1940s and 1950s. The possibility that the political pressures of the McCarthy era might have skewed the development of the discipline has rarely been addressed in the subsequent half century. Why was silence maintained for so long? And what happens, McCumber asks, when political events and pressures go beyond interfering with individual careers...

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