No accident, comrade: chance and design in cold war american narratives
Auteur :
Belletto, Steven
Éditeur :
Oxford University Press Inc
ISBN :
9780199354351
Date de publication :
23 janv. 2014
Dimensions :
23,4 x 15,6 x 1,3 cm
Poids :
336 g
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
USA
No Accident, Comrade argues that chance became a complex yet conflicted cultural signifier during the Cold War, when a range of thinkers--politicians, novelists, historians, biologists, sociologists, and others--contended that totalitarianism denied the very existence and operation of chance in the world.