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  Book Title: The Open
Mind: Cold War Politics and the Sciences of Human Nature	 	
  Book Author:  Jamie Cohen-Cole (Author) 
   Hardcover: 368 pages
   Publisher: University
Of Chicago Press (January 21, 2014)
   Language: English
   ISBN-10: 022609216X
   ISBN-13:
978-0226092164
  
  Book Description
  Publication Date: January 21, 2014
  The Open Mind chronicles the development and
promulgation of a scientific vision of the rational, creative, and autonomous self, demonstrating how this self became a
defining feature of Cold War culture. Jamie Cohen-Cole illustrates how from 1945 to 1965 policy makers and social
critics used the idea of an open-minded human nature to advance centrist politics. They reshaped intellectual culture
and instigated nationwide educational reform that promoted more open, and indeed more human, minds. The new field of
cognitive science was central to this project, as it used popular support for open-mindedness to overthrow the
then-dominant behaviorist view that the mind either could not be studied scientifically or did not exist. Cognitive
science also underwrote the political implications of the open mind by treating it as the essential feature of human
nature. 
  While the open mind unified America in the first two decades after World War II, between 1965 and 1975
battles over the open mind fractured American culture as the ties between political centrism and the scientific account
of human nature began to unravel. During the late 1960s, feminists and the New Left repurposed Cold War era
psychological tools to redefine open-mindedness as a characteristic of left-wing politics. As a result, once-liberal
intellectuals became neoconservative, and in the early 1970s, struggles against open-mindedness gave energy and purpose
to the right wing.
  
  Reviews
  “Cohen-Cole’s book not only offers a fascinating glimpse into the development of mid-century psychology
and cognitive science but also shows the deep connections among what was happening in what might otherwise be considered
separate social and political spaces that include laboratories, classrooms, cocktail parties, conferences, academic
departments, and various physical and textual loci of political and social engagement. It is exceptionally clear in its
narrative structure, prose style, and argument, and it offers a fresh perspective on how we understand the co-creation
of science and society in Cold War America.”(Carla Nappi New Books in Science,
Technology, and Society)
  
  “In this fascinating book, Jamie Cohen-Cole illustrates the
surprisingly strong relations among conceptions of the human mind, models of the academy, and images of the ideal
American citizen, as well as the ultimate fragility of these relations in the face of disruptive political
forces.”(Howard Gardner, author of The Mind's New Science)
  
 
“Who could be against an open mind? In this lucid and humane book, Jamie Cohen-Cole shows how psychologists tried
to model Americans on themselves—as autonomous, creative, experimental scientists. Ultimately, however, their
subjects kicked back. A salutary reminder of the limits to the authority of science in postwar America.”(Peter Mandler, University of Cambridge)
  
  “The Open Mind is an
elegant and important book that makes a major contribution to rethinking the Cold War and its many legacies. Jamie
Cohen-Cole has written a prismatic history, one that reflects the academic disciplines, the institutions of higher
education and their funders, and the social and intellectual networks of its principle figures as they shaped Cold War
politics and education policy. And it even has a chapter on ‘Man: A Course of Study’ (MACOS), a subject I
have puzzled over since the fifth grade. Meticulously researched and argued, the narrative is compelling, surprising,
and refreshingly free of conventional wisdom about the period. As we come to question the self-evident value of
open-mindedness in the process of seeing it historicized, Cohen-Cole allows us to see our own values and habits of
thought in a new way.”(Deborah Nelson, University of Chicago)
  
 
“Charting the political and psychological resonance of ‘the open mind’ in the postwar United States,
Jamie Cohen-Cole himself opens up wholly new ways of conceiving the relationship of the human sciences to public
culture. His compelling account of the ways intellectuals brought the democratic citizen, the scholarly self, and the
normative human into alignment in this era fundamentally alters what we know about the ‘liberal consensus’:
both how it was knit together and how it unraveled. Deeply original and provocative, The Open Mind reveals how thinking
about thinking changed, and why it mattered—for the academy, for science, and for American political
culture.”(Sarah E. Igo, author of The Averaged American)
  
 
About the Author
  Jamie Cohen-Cole is
assistant professor in the Department of American Studies at George Washington University. He lives in Arlington,
Virginia. 						

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