Bruce Kuklick

Biographic Data

ID496245
NAMEBruce Kuklick
GIVEN NAMESBruce
FAMILY NAMEKuklick
SIGNATUREKUKLICK B
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Pennsylvania
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS87
TOTAL CITATIONS58
AUTHOR COUNT87
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1969
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2024
H-INDEX3

  • The Lumumba Plot: The Secret History of the CIA and a Cold War Assassination by Stuart A. Reid

    Bruce KuklickARTICLEJournal of Cold War Studies2024

    In early 1960, Belgium relinquished its huge central African holding, the Belgian Congo, and Patrice Lumumba was democratically elected as the first prime minister of the newly independent country. He took office in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) at the end of June 1960 in the west-coast capital of Leopoldville. In January 1961, less than seven months later, he was killed in the breakaway province of Katanga in the distant southeast. …

  • Michael J. Brown. Hope and Scorn: Eggheads, Experts, and Elites in American Politics

    Open AccessBruce KuklickARTICLEThe American Historical Review2023

    Journal Article Michael J. Brown. Hope and Scorn: Eggheads, Experts, and Elites in American Politics. Get access Michael J. Brown. Hope and Scorn: Eggheads, Experts, and Elites in American Politics. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2020. Pp. 368. Cloth $27.50. Bruce Kuklick Bruce Kuklick University of Pennsylvania, US Email: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The American Histo…

  • Fascism Comes to America: A Century of Obsession in Politics and Culture

    Bruce KuklickBOOKFascism Comes to America2022

  • John Rawls and R. M. Hare: A Study of Canonization

    Open AccessBruce KuklickARTICLEAnalyse & Kritik2022References: 23

    Why is someone enduringly prized as a philosopher? To answer this question, this historical case study examines the intersecting careers of John Rawls and R. M. Hare. It looks at their writings, a complex chain of disagreements, the argumentative dimension. The essay moreover explores the clash of differing temperaments. Finally, themes in addition to ratiocination and personality are factored in: the leanings of the institutions that control acc…

  • Armed with Expertise: The Militarization of American Social Research during the Cold War

    Bruce KuklickARTICLEJournal of Cold War Studies2021

    This book adds to a library of material on social science and U.S. foreign policy after 1945. Joy Rohde examines the origins and growth of the Special Operations and Research Office (SORO) that the U.S. Army established in the mid-1950s. SORO was formally a social science institute of American University in Washington, DC, but it did contract work for the military. The organization was of midrank among the proliferating groups of social scientist…

  • Something Funny Happened on the Way to the Twenty-First Century

    Open AccessBruce KuklickARTICLEAnalyse & Kritik2021References: 9

    This essay first traces change in, roughly, the epistemology of the humanities from the 1950s to the 21st century. The second section looks at how the meaning and options in moral philosophy altered in more or less the same period. The last and easily most speculative section examines how these changes permeated American culture, and how professional philosophers responded to the challenges of the new political world they inhabited

  • Congoism: Congo Discourses in the United States from 1800 to the Present

    Open AccessBruce KuklickARTICLEJournal of American History2020

  • After Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature

    Open AccessBruce KuklickARTICLEAnalyse & Kritik2019Cited by: 3

    Rorty’s Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature hoped that the profession of philosophy would collapse, that philosophy’s style of reasoning would be transformed, and that analytic philosophy would be overturned. This essay looks at the 40 years since the book’s publication, and argues that the discipline has become more professionalized, that its style of reasoning is the same, and that analysis still flourishes

  • Puritans in Babylon: The Ancient Near East and American Intellectual Life, 1880-1930

    Bruce KuklickBOOKPuritans in Babylon2018

  • Who Owns Pragmatism

    Open AccessBruce KuklickARTICLEModern Intellectual History2017Cited by: 3

    In the opening years of the twentieth century a furious contest broke out over the meaning of pragmatism in professional philosophical circles in the United States. When William James introduced his idea to the learned public at the University of California in 1898, he credited Charles Peirce as its prime mover. After James's lecture became known, Peirce, an impossible man who did not know on which side his bread was buttered, re-christened his b…

  • George Kennan, Containment and the Seventh Commandment

    Open AccessBruce KuklickARTICLEOrbis2012

  • The Rise of Policy Institutes in the United States, 1943-1971

    Open AccessBruce KuklickARTICLEOrbis2011

  • Black Philosopher, White Academy: The Career of William Fontaine

    Bruce KuklickBOOKBlack Philosopher, White Academy2008

    At a time when almost all African American college students attended black colleges, philosopher William Fontaine was the only black member of the Penn faculty. Bruce Kuklick sheds light on Fontaine's career as a black scholar as well as on the discipline of philosophy and academic life at mid-century.

  • History and Policy: The Case of Iraq

    Open AccessBruce KuklickARTICLEEuropean Journal of American…2008

    The decision by Americans to go to war against Iraq has appeared to be such a colossal mistake that it has called forth many condemnations by historically minded intellectuals. Most have condemned the hubris and historical insouciance of the administration of George Bush. Few historians think that the President resembles Abraham Lincoln, guiding his country through a necessarily difficult but morally majestic period. Rather, we are told, history …

  • Modern Anglophone Philosophy: Between the Seminar Room and the Cold War

    Open AccessBruce KuklickARTICLEModern Intellectual History2006Cited by: 1

    George A. Reisch, How the Cold War Transformed Philosophy of Science: To the Icy Slopes of Logic (Cambridge and New York, Cambridge University Press, 2005) Scott Soames, Philosophical Analysis in the Twentieth Century. Vol. 1, The Dawn of Analysis; Vol. 2, The Age of Meaning (Princeton, Princeton University Press, 2003) Although How the Cold War Transformed Philosophy of Science is narrower in scope, the two books included in this review by and l…

  • Reverence for the Relations of Life: Re-imagining Pragmatism via Josiah Royce's Interactions with Peirce, James, and Dewey

    Bruce KuklickARTICLEJournal of American History2006

    Journal Article Reverence for the Relations of Life: Re-imagining Pragmatism via Josiah Royce's Interactions with Peirce, James, and Dewey Get access Reverence for the Relations of Life: Re-imagining Pragmatism via Josiah Royce's Interactions with Peirce, James, and Dewey. By Oppenheim Frank M.. (Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2005. xxii, 498 pp. $68.00, isbn0-268-04019-2.) Bruce Kuklick Bruce Kuklick University of PennsylvaniaPhilad…

  • Blind Oracles: Intellectuals and War from Kennan to Kissinger

    Lawrence D Freedman, Lawrence Freedman et al.ARTICLEForeign Affairs2006Cited by: 8

  • French Letters

    Open AccessBruce KuklickARTICLEModern Intellectual History2004

    George Cotkin, Existential America (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003) Ann Fulton, Apostles of Sartre: Existentialism in America, 1945–1963 (Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 1999) Jean-Philippe Mathy, Extrême-Occident: French Intellectuals and America (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1993) Jean-Philippe Mathy, French Resistance: The French–American Culture Wars (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2000)

  • A History of Philosophy in America: 1720-2000

    Bruce KuklickBOOKA History of Philosophy in America2003

    I have been selective in my emphases rather than encyclopaedic and exhaustive. In focusing on American philosophy, the book makes implicit claims about thought and life related to a peculiar western polity and the US, by the nineteenth century. The study of the history of philosophy finally requires complex judgements of quality, which are both questionable and necessary. I have depicted student–teacher relations, conventions of argument, and con…

  • Architects of Globalism: Building a New World Order during World War II

    Bruce KuklickARTICLEPacific Historical Review2003

    Review Article| November 01 2003 Architects of Globalism: Building a New World Order during World War II BRUCE KUKLICK BRUCE KUKLICK University of Pennsylvania Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Pacific Historical Review (2003) 72 (4): 658–659. https://doi.org/10.1525/phr.2003.72.4.658 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twit…

  • The Plumber and the Professor: Or, a Primer on How to Think about the War

    Bruce KuklickARTICLEDiplomatic History2002

    A week after the war started, I met our plumber in the alley that runs behind our house. I like Mr. Gergo, an ex-marine whose shop window around the corner defies every premise of political correctness. Always eager to establish rapport with him for reasons of narrow self-interest, I asked him what he thought of the bombing. He said, “We got our ass kicked in Korea. We got our ass kicked in Vietnam. We won’t have any luck over there.” Surprised, …

  • The Universalist Movement in America, 1770-1880

    Bruce Kuklick, Ann Lee BresslerARTICLEJournal of American History2002

    Journal Article The Universalist Movement in America, 1770–1880. By Ann Lee Bressler. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2001. x, 204 pp. $35.00, ISBN 0-19-512986-5.) Get access Bruce Kuklick Bruce Kuklick University of PennsylvaniaPhiladelphia, Pennsylvania Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 89, Issue 2, September 2002, Pages 613–614, https://doi.org/10.2307/3092194 Publi…

  • Reconsidering the Missile Crisis and Its Interpretation

    Bruce KuklickARTICLEDiplomatic History2001

    Journal Article Reconsidering the Missile Crisis and Its Interpretation Get access Allison Graham and Zelikow Philip, Essence of Decision: Explaining the Cuban Missile Crisis, 2d ed. New York: Addison-Wesley, 1999. xv + 416. Notes, index. $19.69 (paper). Bruce Kuklick Bruce Kuklick University of Pennsylvania Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Diplomatic History, Volume 25, Issue 3, July 2001, Pages 517–523, h…

  • A World of Hope, a World of Fear: Henry A. Wallace, Reinhold Niebuhr, and American Liberalism

    Bruce Kuklick, Mark L KleinmanARTICLEJournal of American History2001Cited by: 3

    Journal Article A World of Hope, a World of Fear: Henry A. Wallace, Reinhold Niebuhr, and American Liberalism. By Mark L. Kleinman. (Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2000. xviii, 370 pp. $55.00, ISBN 0-8142-0844-4.) Get access Bruce Kuklick Bruce Kuklick University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 88, Issue 2, September 200…

  • A History of Philosophy in America, 1720-2000

    Bruce KuklickBOOKA history of philosophy in…2001