The Politics of Paradigms

<p><b>Uncovers long-ignored political themes-ideology propaganda mind-control and Orwellian history-at work within the pages of </b><b><i>The Structure of Scientific Revolutions.</i></b></p><p><i>The Politics of Paradigms</i> shows that America's most famous and influential book about science <i>The Structure of Scientific Revolutions of 1962</i> was inspired and shaped by Thomas Kuhn's political interests his relationship with the influential cold warrior James Bryant Conant and America's McCarthy-era struggle to resist and defeat totalitarian ideology. Through detailed archival research Reisch shows how Kuhn's well-known theories of paradigms crises and scientific revolutions emerged from within urgent political worries-on campus and in the public sphere-about the invisible unconscious powers of ideology language and history to shape the human mind and its experience of the world.</p>