Decisionist Imagination (eBook)

Sovereignty, Social Science and Democracy in the 20th Century

Daniel Bessner, Nicolas Guilhot (Herausgeber)

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2018
320 Seiten
Berghahn Books (Verlag)
978-1-83695-819-2 (ISBN)

Infos

In the decades following World War II, the science of decision-making moved from the periphery to the center of transatlantic thought. The Decisionist Imagination explores how decisionism emerged from its origins in prewar political theory to become an object of intense social scientific inquiry in the new intellectual and institutional landscapes of the postwar era. By bringing together scholars from a wide variety of disciplines, this volume illuminates how theories of decision shaped numerous techno-scientific aspects of modern governance helping to explain, in short, how we arrived at where we are today.

Autor

Daniel Bessner is Associate Professor of International Studies in the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies at the University of Washington.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 19.10.2018
• Verlagsort: New York
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► 1918 bis 1945
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
• Schlagworte: Decision Theory, Decisionism, Decisionist, Cold War, Political Theory, Sovereignty, Decision-Making
• ISBN-10: 1-83695-819-6 / 1836958196
• ISBN-13: 978-1-83695-819-2 / 9781836958192