Introduction: Science studies in East and West - incommensurable paradigms? / Elena Aronova and Simone Turchetti Part I Science studies in the "West" -- Telegrams and paradigms: on Cold War geopolitics and "The structure of scientific revolutions" / George A. Reisch "What's so great about science?" Feyerabend on science, ideology, and the Cold War / Ian James Kidd Looking for the bad teachers: the radical science movement and its transnational history / Simone Turchetti Thomas Kuhn's "Structure": an "exemplary document of the Cold War era"? / Hans-Joachim Dahms Part II: Studies of science behind the "Curtain" -- Blind isolation: history of science behind the Iron Curtain / Gabor Pallo The science of science (naukoznawstwo) in Poland: defending and removing the past in the Cold War / Michał Kokowski Scientists of the world, unite! Radovan Richta's theory of scientific and technological revolution / Vítěslav Sommer Part III: National agendas of the studies of science beyond the "two blocs" -- The Cold War, political neutrality, and academic boundaries: imprints on the origins and early development of science studies in Sweden / Aant Elzinga What does a "national science" mean? Science policy, politics and philosophy in Latin America / Federico Vasen From dialectics of nature to STS: the historical evolution of science studies in China / Lu Gao. |