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Preface; Contents; List of Contributors; Chapter 1: Introduction: Science Studies inßEast andßWest-Incommensurable Paradigms?; The Volume's Outline; The East and the West: Interconnections andßDialogues; Notes; Part I: Science Studies in the "West"; Chapter 2: Telegrams andßParadigms: OnßCold War Geopolitics andßThe Structure ofßScientific Revolutions; The Long Telegram; The X Article; Conant, Kennan, andßtheßLogic ofßContainment; National Security Council Report 68; The Kennan-Conant Consensus; The Russian Research Center; A Russian Research Center inßEvery Neighborhood.
The Promise (and Problems) ofßParadigmsNotes; Chapter 3: "What's SoßGreat About Science?" Feyerabend onßScience, Ideology, andßtheßCold War; Two Fundamental Questions; Science, Modernity, andßIdeology; Ideological Monism; Conclusions; Notes; Chapter 4: Looking forßtheßBad Teachers: TheßRadical Science Movement andßIts Transnational History; 1968 andßtheßRadical Science Movement; American Radicals inßBritain; The British Connections ofßanßItalian Radical Science Scholar; Europeans inßtheßUSA (and David Noble); Conclusions: Hybrid Knowledge andßtheßHidden "Radical" Ancestors; Notes.
Chapter 5: Thomas Kuhn's Structure: Anß"Exemplary Document ofßtheßCold War Era"?Fuller andßReisch onßKuhn; Kuhn andßtheßSociology ofßScience; Conservative Traits inßKuhn's Theory ofßScientific Development; Kuhn's Encounter withßLudwik Fleck; Kuhn andßtheßSociology ofßScience; Kuhn andßHerring; Appendix: Michael Polanyi-Another Source forßKuhn's Conservatism; Notes; Part II: Studies of Science Behind the "Curtain"; Chapter 6: Blind Isolation: History ofßScience Behind theßIron Curtain; Favorable Climate toßInstitutionalization inßtheßEarly 1970s.
Some Features ofßHistoriography ofßScience inßHungaryHungarian Historians ofßScience Working Outside Hungary; Uneasy Relations withßPhilosophy; Atheoretical Attitude ofßtheßHistorians ofßScience; Conclusions; Notes; Chapter 7: The Science ofßScience (naukoznawstwo) inßPoland: Defending andßRemoving theßPast inßtheßCold War; The Polish Tradition inßScience ofßScience; Soviet Pressures onßPolish Science ofßScience; Co-Existence ofß"Old" andß"New" Traditions inßPolish Science ofßScience; The Bleak 1970s; The Re-Emergence ofßtheßOld Tradition andßaßSudden Real Collapse ofßResearch; Conclusion.
NotesChapter 8: Scientists ofßtheßWorld, Unite! Radovan Richta's Theory ofßScientific andßTechnological Revolution; In theßName ofß"Active Superstructure": Stalinist Theory ofßKnowledge andßSocial Sciences; Direct Productive Force andßPost-Industrial Labor; Richta's Late Works: Science inßLate Socialism; Conclusion: Radovan Richta's Theory ofßScience Between Stalinism andßLate Socialism; Notes; Part III: National Agendas of the Studies of Science Beyond the "Two Blocs."
The Promise (and Problems) ofßParadigmsNotes; Chapter 3: "What's SoßGreat About Science?" Feyerabend onßScience, Ideology, andßtheßCold War; Two Fundamental Questions; Science, Modernity, andßIdeology; Ideological Monism; Conclusions; Notes; Chapter 4: Looking forßtheßBad Teachers: TheßRadical Science Movement andßIts Transnational History; 1968 andßtheßRadical Science Movement; American Radicals inßBritain; The British Connections ofßanßItalian Radical Science Scholar; Europeans inßtheßUSA (and David Noble); Conclusions: Hybrid Knowledge andßtheßHidden "Radical" Ancestors; Notes.
Chapter 5: Thomas Kuhn's Structure: Anß"Exemplary Document ofßtheßCold War Era"?Fuller andßReisch onßKuhn; Kuhn andßtheßSociology ofßScience; Conservative Traits inßKuhn's Theory ofßScientific Development; Kuhn's Encounter withßLudwik Fleck; Kuhn andßtheßSociology ofßScience; Kuhn andßHerring; Appendix: Michael Polanyi-Another Source forßKuhn's Conservatism; Notes; Part II: Studies of Science Behind the "Curtain"; Chapter 6: Blind Isolation: History ofßScience Behind theßIron Curtain; Favorable Climate toßInstitutionalization inßtheßEarly 1970s.
Some Features ofßHistoriography ofßScience inßHungaryHungarian Historians ofßScience Working Outside Hungary; Uneasy Relations withßPhilosophy; Atheoretical Attitude ofßtheßHistorians ofßScience; Conclusions; Notes; Chapter 7: The Science ofßScience (naukoznawstwo) inßPoland: Defending andßRemoving theßPast inßtheßCold War; The Polish Tradition inßScience ofßScience; Soviet Pressures onßPolish Science ofßScience; Co-Existence ofß"Old" andß"New" Traditions inßPolish Science ofßScience; The Bleak 1970s; The Re-Emergence ofßtheßOld Tradition andßaßSudden Real Collapse ofßResearch; Conclusion.
NotesChapter 8: Scientists ofßtheßWorld, Unite! Radovan Richta's Theory ofßScientific andßTechnological Revolution; In theßName ofß"Active Superstructure": Stalinist Theory ofßKnowledge andßSocial Sciences; Direct Productive Force andßPost-Industrial Labor; Richta's Late Works: Science inßLate Socialism; Conclusion: Radovan Richta's Theory ofßScience Between Stalinism andßLate Socialism; Notes; Part III: National Agendas of the Studies of Science Beyond the "Two Blocs."