Constructing a Social Science for Postwar America: The Cybernetics Group, 1946-1953 - Couverture souple

Heims, Steve Joshua

 
9780262581233: Constructing a Social Science for Postwar America: The Cybernetics Group, 1946-1953
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 026258123X ISBN 13 : 9780262581233
Editeur : The MIT Press, 1993

Synopsis

Focusing on the Macy Foundation conferences, a series of encounters that captured a moment of transformation in the human sciences.

In this sequel to his acclaimed double biography, John von Neumann and Norbert Wiener, Steve Heims recounts another fascinating story in twentieth-century intellectual history - a series of encounters that captured a moment of transformation in the human sciences. Focusing on the Macy Foundation conferences, which were designed to forge connections between wartime science and postwar social science, Heims's richly detailed account explores the dialogues that emerged among a remarkable group that included Wiener, von Neumann, Margaret Mead, Gregory Bateson, Warren McCulloch, Kurt Lewin, Molly Harrower, and Lawrence Kubie. Heims shows how those dialogues shaped ideas in psychology, sociology, anthropology, and psychiatry.

Steve Joshua Heims, once a research physicist, has devoted his attention to the history of twentieth-century science for the past two decades.

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À propos de l?auteur

Steve J. Heims, once a research physicist, had devoted his attention to the history of twentieth century science for the last two decades.

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Éditeur
The MIT Press
Date d'édition
1993
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
026258123X
ISBN 13 
9780262581233
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
348
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