Science Studies during the Cold War and Beyond [electronic resource] : Paradigms Defected /
Aronova, Elena.editor.
Turchetti, Simone.editor.
Alfried Krupp Wissenschaftskolleg Greifswald,host institution.
Politics and Context of Science Studies during the Cold War and Beyond (Conference)(2012 :Greifswald, Germany)
This book examines the ways in which studies of science intertwined with Cold War politics, in both familiar and less familiar “battlefields” of the Cold War. Taken together, the essays highlight two primary roles for science studies as a new field of expertise institutionalized during the Cold War in different political regimes. Firstly, science studies played a political role in cultural Cold War in sustaining as well as destabilizing political ideologies in different political and national contexts. Secondly, it was an instrument of science policies in the early Cold War: the studies of science were promoted as the underpinning for the national policies framed with regard to both global geopolitics and local national priorities. As this book demonstrates, however, the wider we cast our net, extending our histories beyond the more researched developments in the Anglophone West, the more complex and ambivalent both the “science studies” and “the Cold War” become outside these more familiar spaces. The national stories collected in this book may appear incommensurable with what we know as science studies today, but these stories present a vantage point from which to pluralize some of the visions that were constitutive to the construction of “Cold War” as a juxtaposition of the liberal democracies in the “West” and the communist “East.” .
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
This book examines the ways in which studies of science intertwined with Cold War politics, in both familiar and less familiar “battlefields” of the Cold War. Taken together, the essays highlight two primary roles for science studies as a new field of expertise institutionalized during the Cold War in different political regimes. Firstly, science studies played a political role in cultural Cold War in sustaining as well as destabilizing political ideologies in different political and national contexts. Secondly, it was an instrument of science policies in the early Cold War: the studies of science were promoted as the underpinning for the national policies framed with regard to both global geopolitics and local national priorities. As this book demonstrates, however, the wider we cast our net, extending our histories beyond the more researched developments in the Anglophone West, the more complex and ambivalent both the “science studies” and “the Cold War” become outside these more familiar spaces. The national stories collected in this book may appear incommensurable with what we know as science studies today, but these stories present a vantage point from which to pluralize some of the visions that were constitutive to the construction of “Cold War” as a juxtaposition of the liberal democracies in the “West” and the communist “East.” .
Preface; Contents; List of Contributors; Chapter 1: Introduction: Science Studies in East and West-Incommensurable Paradigms?; The Volume's Outline; The East and the West: Interconnections and Dialogues; Notes; Part I: Science Studies in the "West"; Chapter 2: Telegrams and Paradigms: On Cold War Geopolitics and The Structure of Scientific Revolutions; The Long Telegram; The X Article; Conant, Kennan, and the Logic of Containment; National Security Council Report 68; The Kennan-Conant Consensus; The Russian Research Center; A Russian Research Center in Every Neighborhood
The Promise (and Problems) of Paradigms Notes; Chapter 3: "What's So Great About Science?" Feyerabend on Science, Ideology, and the Cold War; Two Fundamental Questions; Science, Modernity, and Ideology; Ideological Monism; Conclusions; Notes; Chapter 4: Looking for the Bad Teachers: The Radical Science Movement and Its Transnational History; 1968 and the Radical Science Movement; American Radicals in Britain; The British Connections of an Italian Radical Science Scholar; Europeans in the USA (and David Noble); Conclusions: Hybrid Knowledge and the Hidden "Radical" Ancestors; Notes
Chapter 5: Thomas Kuhn's Structure: An "Exemplary Document of the Cold War Era"? Fuller and Reisch on Kuhn; Kuhn and the Sociology of Science; Conservative Traits in Kuhn's Theory of Scientific Development; Kuhn's Encounter with Ludwik Fleck; Kuhn and the Sociology of Science; Kuhn and Herring; Appendix: Michael Polanyi-Another Source for Kuhn's Conservatism; Notes; Part II: Studies of Science Behind the "Curtain"; Chapter 6: Blind Isolation: History of Science Behind the Iron Curtain; Favorable Climate to Institutionalization in the Early 1970s
Some Features of Historiography of Science in Hungary Hungarian Historians of Science Working Outside Hungary; Uneasy Relations with Philosophy; Atheoretical Attitude of the Historians of Science; Conclusions; Notes; Chapter 7: The Science of Science (naukoznawstwo) in Poland: Defending and Removing the Past in the Cold War; The Polish Tradition in Science of Science; Soviet Pressures on Polish Science of Science; Co-Existence of "Old" and "New" Traditions in Polish Science of Science; The Bleak 1970s; The Re-Emergence of the Old Tradition and a Sudden Real Collapse of Research; Conclusion
Notes Chapter 8: Scientists of the World, Unite! Radovan Richta's Theory of Scientific and Technological Revolution; In the Name of "Active Superstructure": Stalinist Theory of Knowledge and Social Sciences; Direct Productive Force and Post-Industrial Labor; Richta's Late Works: Science in Late Socialism; Conclusion: Radovan Richta's Theory of Science Between Stalinism and Late Socialism; Notes; Part III: National Agendas of the Studies of Science Beyond the "Two Blocs"
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Europe—History—1492-.
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