| Description |
1 online resource (268 pages) |
| Contents |
Preface and Acknowledgments; Introduction. The Struggle over Cold War Rationality; One. Enlightenment Reason, Cold War Rationality, and the Rule of Rules; Two. The Bounded Rationality of Cold War Operations Research; Three. Saving the Planet from Nuclear Weapons and the Human Mind; Four. "The Situation" in the Cold War Behavioral Sciences; Five. World in a Matrix; Six. The Collapse of Cold War Rationality; Epilogue. Cold War Rationality after the Cold War; Notes; Bibliography; Index |
| Summary |
In the United States at the height of the Cold War, roughly between the end of World War II and the early 1980s, a new project of redefining rationality commanded the attention of sharp minds, powerful politicians, wealthy foundations, and top military brass. Its home was the human sciences-psychology, sociology, political science, and economics, among others-and its participants enlisted in an intellectual campaign to figure out what rationality should mean and how it could be deployed. How Reason Almost Lost Its Mind brings to life the people-Herbert Simon, Oskar Morgenstern, Herma |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Cold War -- Philosophy
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Game theory -- Political aspects
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Rationalism -- Political aspects
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Reason -- Political aspects
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World politics -- 1945-1989.
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HISTORY -- World.
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Rationalism -- Political aspects
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Reason -- Political aspects
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World politics
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Klein, Judy L
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Daston, Lorraine
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Lemov, Rebecca
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Sturm, Thomas
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Gordin, Michael D
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| ISBN |
9780226046778 |
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022604677X |
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9780226046631 |
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022604663X |
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