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Farewell to Reason is a 1987 book by the Austrian philosopher of science Paul Feyerabend. The book includes some reprinted essays published in other venues and was published by Verso Books, which also published Against Method and Science in a Free Society.
- Paul K. Feyerabend
- 1987
Aug 26, 1997 · Many of the more important papers Feyerabend published during the mid-1980s were collected together in Farewell to Reason (London: Verso, 1987). The major message of this book is that relativism is the solution to the problems of conflicting beliefs and of conflicting ways of life.
Feyerabend's ideas about a 'conquest of abundance' were first voiced in Farewell to Reason, and the writings of the late 1980s and early 1990s experiment with different ways of expressing the idea, including many of the articles and essays published as part two of Conquest of Abundance.
Farewell to Reason offers a vigorous challenge to the scientific rationalism that underlies Western ideals of “progress” and “development,” whose damaging social and ecological consequences are now widely recognized.
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Farewell to Reason offers a vigorous challenge to the scientific rationalism that underlies Western ideals of “progress” and “development,” whose damaging social and ecological consequences are...
- Paul Feyerabend
- Verso Books, 1988
- illustrated, reprint
- Farewell to Reason
Jan 1, 2001 · Farewell to Reason offers a vigorous challenge to the scientific rationalism that underlies Western ideals of “progress” and “development,” whose damaging social and ecological consequences are now widely recognized.
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In Farewell to Reason, Paul Feyerabend argues, “Diversity is beneficial while uniformity reduces our joys and our (intellectual, emotional, material) resources” (pg. 1). He criticizes the two ideas he believes “have often been used to make Western expansion intellectually respectable – the idea of Reason and the idea of Objectivity ...
