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Groovy Science: Knowledge, Innovation, and American Counterculture
David Kaiser (Ed.)
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Description for Groovy Science: Knowledge, Innovation, and American Counterculture
Paperback. Editor(s): Kaiser, David; McCray, Patrick. Num Pages: 416 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 156 x 233 x 24. Weight in Grams: 578.
In his 1969 book The Making of a Counterculture, Theodore Roszak described the youth of the late 1960s as fleeing science as if from a place inhabited by plague, and even seeking subversion of the scientific worldview itself. Roszak's view has come to be our own: when we think of the youth movement of the 1960s and early 1970s, we think of a movement that was explicitly anti-scientific in its embrace of alternative spiritualities and communal living. Such a view is far too simple, ignoring the diverse ways in which the era's countercultures expressed enthusiasm ... Read more
In his 1969 book The Making of a Counterculture, Theodore Roszak described the youth of the late 1960s as fleeing science as if from a place inhabited by plague, and even seeking subversion of the scientific worldview itself. Roszak's view has come to be our own: when we think of the youth movement of the 1960s and early 1970s, we think of a movement that was explicitly anti-scientific in its embrace of alternative spiritualities and communal living. Such a view is far too simple, ignoring the diverse ways in which the era's countercultures expressed enthusiasm ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
416
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780226372914
SKU
V9780226372914
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About David Kaiser (Ed.)
David Kaiser is the Germeshausen Professor of the History of Science and professor of physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is the author of Drawing Theories Apart, also published by the University of Chicago Press, and How the Hippies Saved Physics. He lives near Boston, Massachusetts. W. Patrick McCray is professor in the department of history at the ... Read more
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