Groovy Science Knowledge, Innovation, and American Counterculture
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Erscheinungsdatum
04.03.2020
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David Kaiser + weitereVerlag
The University of Chicago PressSeitenzahl
432 (Printausgabe)
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5282 KB
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Englisch
EAN
9780226373072
Did the Woodstock generation reject science-or re-create it? An "enthralling" study of a unique period in scientific history (
New Scientist).
Our general image of the youth of the late 1960s and early 1970s is one of hostility to things like missiles and mainframes and plastics-and an enthusiasm for alternative spirituality and getting "back to nature." But this enlightening collection reveals that the stereotype is overly simplistic. In fact, there were diverse ways in which the era's countercultures expressed enthusiasm for and involved themselves in science-of a certain type. Boomers and hippies sought a science that was both small-scale and big-picture, as exemplified by the annual workshops on quantum physics at the Esalen Institute in Big Sur, or Timothy Leary's championing of space exploration as the ultimate "high."
Groovy Scienceexplores the experimentation and eclecticism that marked countercultural science and technology during one of the most colorful periods of American history.
"Demonstrate[s] that people and groups strongly ensconced in the counterculture also embraced science, albeit in untraditional and creative ways."-
Science
"Each essay is a case history on how the hippies repurposed science and made it cool. For the academic historian,
Groovy Scienceestablishes the 'deep mark on American culture' made by the countercultural innovators. For the non-historian, the book reads as if it were infected by the hippies' democratic intent: no jargon, few convoluted sentences, clear arguments and a sense of delight."-
Nature
"In the late 1960s and 1970s, the mind-expanding modus operandi of the counterculture spread into the realm of science, and sh-t got wonderfully weird. Neurophysiologist John Lilly tried to talk with dolphins. Physicist Peter Phillips launched a parapsychology lab at Washington University. Princeton physicist Gerard O'Neill became an evangelist for space colonies.
Groovy Scienceis a new book of essays about this heady time."-
Boing Boing
New Scientist).
Our general image of the youth of the late 1960s and early 1970s is one of hostility to things like missiles and mainframes and plastics-and an enthusiasm for alternative spirituality and getting "back to nature." But this enlightening collection reveals that the stereotype is overly simplistic. In fact, there were diverse ways in which the era's countercultures expressed enthusiasm for and involved themselves in science-of a certain type. Boomers and hippies sought a science that was both small-scale and big-picture, as exemplified by the annual workshops on quantum physics at the Esalen Institute in Big Sur, or Timothy Leary's championing of space exploration as the ultimate "high."
Groovy Scienceexplores the experimentation and eclecticism that marked countercultural science and technology during one of the most colorful periods of American history.
"Demonstrate[s] that people and groups strongly ensconced in the counterculture also embraced science, albeit in untraditional and creative ways."-
Science
"Each essay is a case history on how the hippies repurposed science and made it cool. For the academic historian,
Groovy Scienceestablishes the 'deep mark on American culture' made by the countercultural innovators. For the non-historian, the book reads as if it were infected by the hippies' democratic intent: no jargon, few convoluted sentences, clear arguments and a sense of delight."-
Nature
"In the late 1960s and 1970s, the mind-expanding modus operandi of the counterculture spread into the realm of science, and sh-t got wonderfully weird. Neurophysiologist John Lilly tried to talk with dolphins. Physicist Peter Phillips launched a parapsychology lab at Washington University. Princeton physicist Gerard O'Neill became an evangelist for space colonies.
Groovy Scienceis a new book of essays about this heady time."-
Boing Boing
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