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Killing Time: The Autobiography of Paul Feyerabend, Feyerabend 978022624 PB+=
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- 1996-11-15
- ISBN
- 9780226245324
- EAN
- 9780226245324
- Book Title
- Killing Time : the Autobiography of Paul Feyerabend
- Item Length
- 0.8in
- Publisher
- University of Chicago Press
- Publication Year
- 1996
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.1in
- Genre
- Biography & Autobiography, Philosophy
- Topic
- Personal Memoirs, General, Science & Technology
- Item Width
- 0.6in
- Item Weight
- 9.2 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 203 Pages
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Killing Time is the story of Paul Feyerabend's life. Finished only weeks before his death in 1994, it is the self-portrait of one of this century's most original and influential intellectuals. Trained in physics and astronomy, Feyerabend was best known as a philosopher of science. But he emphatically was not a builder of theories or a writer of rules. Rather, his fame was in powerful, plain-spoken critiques of "big" science and "big" philosophy. Feyerabend gave voice to a radically democratic "epistemological anarchism:" he argued forcefully that there is not one way to knowledge, but many principled paths; not one truth or one rationality but different, competing pictures of the workings of the world. "Anything goes," he said about the ways of science in his most famous book, Against Method. And he meant it. Here, for the first time, Feyerabend traces the trajectory that led him from an isolated, lower-middle-class childhood in Vienna to the height of international academic success. He writes of his experience in the German army on the Russian front, where three bullets left him crippled, impotent, and in lifelong pain. He recalls his promising talent as an operatic tenor (a lifelong passion), his encounters with everyone from Martin Buber to Bertolt Brecht, innumerable love affairs, four marriages, and a career so rich he once held tenured positions at four universities at the same time. Although not written as an intellectual autobiography, Killing Time sketches the people, ideas, and conflicts of sixty years. Feyerabend writes frankly of complicated relationships with his mentor Karl Popper and his friend and frequent opponent Imre Lakatos, and his reactions to a growing reputation as the "worst enemy of science."
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University of Chicago Press
ISBN-10
0226245322
ISBN-13
9780226245324
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88943
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Book Title
Killing Time : the Autobiography of Paul Feyerabend
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Personal Memoirs, General, Science & Technology
Publication Year
1996
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, Philosophy
Number of Pages
203 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
0.8in
Item Height
0.1in
Item Width
0.6in
Item Weight
9.2 Oz
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Table of Content
1. Family 2. Growing Up 3. High School 4. Occupation and War 5. Apolda and Weimar 6. University and Early Travels 7. Sex, Song, and Electrodynamics 8. London and After 9. Bristol 10. Berkeley, the First Twenty Years 11. London, Berlin, and New Zealand 12. Against Method 13. Brighton, Kassel, and Zurich 14. Marriage and Retirement 15. Fading Away Postscript Index
Copyright Date
1996
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Trade
Dewey Decimal
193 B
Dewey Edition
20
Illustrated
Yes
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