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System and Interdisciplinarity in Historical Perspective

For those concerned with the history of the construction of knowledge in the human sciences in the United States, these two books will be essential reading. While Hunter Heyck deals with the emergence of “high modern social science” and its transformation into “late modern social science” during the post-World War II period and after, Harvey J. Graff examines interdisciplinary endeavors in the social sciences, the life sciences, and related fields during the twentieth century. The books intersect in significant ways; both are concerned with interdisciplinary initiatives and with high modern social sciences such as cognitive science and social relations. Most importantly, both shed considerable light on the construction of the human sciences during the twentieth (and early twenty-first) century and, in doing so, make major contributions to illuminating the intellectual terrain that we now inhabit. As indicated above, Hunter Heyck’s Age of System will be essential reading for those interested in the history of the human sciences in the late twentieth century. Part of a group of historians concerned with the history of the social sciences in the U.S. during the postwar era—Mark Solovey, Joel Isaac, David Engerman, Sonja Amadae, Nadine Weidman, Marga Vicedo, and Jeff Pooley come to mind as other members of this group—Heyck has previously distinguished himself as the author of an intellectual biography of Herbert Simon, a pioneer social scientist and administrator during the postwar years. In Age of System, Heyck provides us with an insightful and erudite historical account of what he terms “high modern social science,” examining its emergence in light of the wider intellectual, social, technological, and organizational trends from the 1950s to the early 1970s. Given its ambitious scope, his book can,