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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
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.
Jan 1, 2001 · Paul Karl Feyerabend. 3.98. 195 ratings15 reviews. 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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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.
Farewell to Reason. From: Feyerabend, P.K., Farewell to Reason, Verso, London, 1987 (7th reprint 1999 page 317). In the years 1964ff Mexicans, Blacks, Indians entered the university as a result of new educational policies. There they sat, partly curious, partly disdainful, partly simply confused, hoping to get an ‘education’.
Farewell to Reason. Paul Feyerabend. Verso, 1987 - Science - 327 pages. Farewell to Reason offers a vigorous challenge to the scientific rationalism that underlies Western ideals of...
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Whether discussing Greek art and thought, vindicating the church’s battle with Galileo, exploring the development of quantum physics or exposing the dogmatism of Karl Popper, Feyerabend defends a relativist and historicist notion of the sciences.
