Cohen-Cole: The Open Mind

Authors

  • Dayé Christian

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.25364/11.2:2017.2.5

Keywords:

Jamie Cohen-Cole, Cold war

Abstract

Book review of: 

Cohen-Cole, Jamie (2014) The Open Mind: Cold War Politics and the Sciences of Human Nature. Chicago, London: The University of Chicago Press. 368 pp. ISBN: 978-0-226-09216-4. Price: $ 48,00 (Cloth)

References

Adorno, Theodor W., Else Frenkel-Brunswik, Daniel J. Levinson, and R. Nevitt Sanford (1950) The Authoritarian Personality, New York: Harper.

Cravens, Hamilton (2012) Column Right, March! Nationalism, Scientific Positivism, and the Conservative Turn of the American Social Sciences in the Cold War Era, in: Mark Solovey, and Hamilton Cravens (eds.) Cold War Social Science: Knowledge Production, Liberal Democracy, and Human Nature, New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 117–35.

Erickson, Paul, Judy L. Klein, Lorraine Daston, Rebecca Lemov, Thomas Sturm, and Michael D. Gordin (2013) How Reason Almost Lost Its Mind: The Strange Career of Cold War Rationality, Chicago, London: The University of Chicago Press.

Kuklick, Bruce (2006) Blind Oracles: Intellectuals and War from Kennan to Kissinger, Princeton: Princeton University Press.

Robin, Ron (2001) The Making of the Cold War Enemy. Culture and Politics in the Military-Intellectual Complex, Princeton, Oxford: Princeton University Press.

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Published

2017-12-01

How to Cite

Christian, D. (2017) “Cohen-Cole: The Open Mind”, Serendipities. Journal for the Sociology and History of the Social Sciences, 2(2), pp. 257–259. doi: 10.25364/11.2:2017.2.5.

Issue

Vol. 2 No. 2 (2017): Serendipities. Journal for the Sociology and History of the Social Sciences

Section

Book Reviews

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