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Product details
- ISBN 9780810146075
- Weight: 272g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 15 May 2023
- Publisher: Northwestern University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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In Time in the Ditch, John McCumber explores the effects of McCarthyism on American philosophy in the 1940s and 1950 and the possibility that the political pressures of the McCarthy era skewed the development of the discipline. Why was silence maintained for so long? And what happens, McCumber asks, when political events and pressures go beyond interfering with individual careers to influence the nature of a discipline itself?
John McCumber is a Distinguished Professor and Chair of the UCLA Department of Germanic Languages. He is the author of six books, including Poetic Interaction: Language, Freedom Reason; The Company of Words: Hegel, Language, and Systematic Philosophy; Metaphysics and Oppression: Heidegger’s Challenge to Western Philosophy; and Reshaping Reason: Toward a New Philosophy.
