Science, democracy, and the American university from the Civil War to the Cold War

This book reinterprets the rise of the natural and social sciences as sources of political authority in modern America. Andrew Jewett demonstrates the remarkable persistence of a belief that the scientific enterprise carried with it a set of ethical values capable of grounding a democratic culture -...

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Autor principal: Jewett, Andrew (-)
Formato: Libro
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Cambridge University Press 2014
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  • Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction: thinking about John Dewey, science, and American politics; Part I. The Scientific Spirit: 2. Founding hopes; 3. Internal divisions; 4. Science and philosophy; Part II. The Scientific Attitude: 5. Scientific citizenship; 6. The biology of culture; 7. The problem of cultural exchange; 8. Making scientific citizens; Part III. Science and Politics: 9. Science and its contexts; 10. The problem of values; 11. Two cultures; 12. Accommodation; 13. Conclusion: science and democracy after the Cold War.