Time in the Ditch: American Philosophy and the McCarthy Era
by John McCumber
Northwestern University Press, 2023
Cloth: 978-0-8101-1809-6 | Paper: 978-0-8101-4607-5 | eISBN: 978-0-8101-2072-3
Library of Congress Classification B936.M36 2001
Dewey Decimal Classification 191
ABOUT THIS BOOK
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?
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