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Science, democracy, and the American university : from the Civil War to the Cold War / Andrew Jewett, Harvard University.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Jewett, Andrew, 1970- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Democracy and science--United States.
- Democracy and science.
- Science and state--United States.
- Science and state.
- Science--United States--History.
- Science.
- Social sciences--United States--History.
- Social sciences.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xii, 402 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
- Other Title:
- Science, Democracy, & the American University
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2012.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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 - a political function widely assigned to religion. The book traces the shifting formulations of this belief from the creation of the research universities in the Civil War era to the early Cold War years. It examines hundreds of leading scholars who viewed science not merely as a source of technical knowledge, but also as a resource for fostering cultural change. This vision generated surprisingly nuanced portraits of science in the years before the military-industrial complex and has much to teach us today about the relationship between science and democracy.
- Contents:
- Introduction : relating science and democracy
- Founding hopes
- Internal divisions
- Science and philosophy
- Scientific citizenship
- The biology of culture
- The problem of cultural change
- Making scientific citizens
- Science and its contexts
- The problem of values
- Two cultures
- Accommodation
- Conclusion : science and democracy in a new century.
- Notes:
- Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-139-88938-9
- 1-139-57972-X
- 1-139-57362-4
- 1-139-56934-1
- 1-139-22571-5
- 1-139-57290-3
- 1-139-57115-X
- 1-283-63878-9
- 1-139-57024-2
- OCLC:
- 823240858
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