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Red Helmsman: Cybernetics, Economics, and Philosophy in the German Democratic Republic

Cybernetics, despite being initially rejected in the Eastern Bloc throughout the 1950s for ideological reasons, rose to a high level of institutional prominence in the 1960s, profoundly influencing state philosophy and economic planning. This thesis is an examination of this transition, charting the development of cybernetics from the object of the Sozialistische Einheitspartei Deutschlands’s (SED) opprobrium to one of the major philosophical currents within the party intelligentsia.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:GEORGIA/oai:digitalarchive.gsu.edu:history_theses-1046
Date07 May 2011
CreatorsBaker, Kevin T
PublisherDigital Archive @ GSU
Source SetsGeorgia State University
Detected LanguageEnglish
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