The Politics of Paradigms

George A. Reisch is managing editor of The Monist and series editor for Open Court Publishing Company's series Popular Culture and Philosophy.

List of Illustrations
Preface
Bombs and Books: An Introduction
Timeline of Events and Documents
Cast of Additional Characters

Part I. War and Crisis

1. Progress and Revolution in the Suburbs of New York

2. War and General Education at Harvard

3. History of Science in a Divided World

Part II. “The Struggle for Men’s Minds”

4. The Cold War Conversions of Thomas S. Kuhn and James Bryant Conant

5. Sidney Hook and the Anticommunist Inquisition

6. Brainwashing, or the Structure of Philosophical Revolutions

7. The Necessary Dangers of Consensus and Unity

Part III. The Cold War Origins of The Structure of Scientific Revolutions

8. The Language, Psychology, and Psychoanalysis of Scientific “Reorientations”

9. “Attention Senator McCarthy”: The Perils of Methodology in Totalitarian Times

10. Ideology and Revolution in the International Encyclopedia of Unified Science

11. Progress, Ideology, and “Writing History Backwards”

12. From “Ideology” and “Consensus” to Paradigmania

Part IV. The New World of Paradigms

13. “If Mr. Kuhn Is Right . . .”: Paradigms and Dogmas in Cold War Science Education

14. The Magic of Paradigms

15. Spies, Prisons, Mobs, Bandwagons, and Beasts

16. The Thomas Kuhn Experience

17. A Revolution and a New Ideology

Epilogue: Writing and Rewriting History

Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Notes
Bibliography
Index