{"product_id":"politics-of-paradigms","title":"Politics of Paradigms","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eUncovers long-ignored political themes—ideology, propaganda, mind-control, and Orwellian history—at work within the pages of \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Structure of Scientific Revolutions.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Politics of Paradigms\u003c\/i\u003e shows that America's most famous and influential book about science, \u003ci\u003eThe Structure of Scientific Revolutions of 1962\u003c\/i\u003e, 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"State University of New York Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54410483597656,"sku":"9781438473666","price":40.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9781438473666.jpg?v=1777896071","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/politics-of-paradigms","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}