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Conquest of Abundance - A Tale of Abstraction Versus the Richness of Richness (Paperback, New edition)
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Conquest of Abundance - A Tale of Abstraction Versus the Richness of Richness (Paperback, New edition)
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From Homeric gods to galaxies, from love affairs to perspective in
painting, Paul Feyerabend revelled in the physical and cultural
abundance that surrounds us. He found it equally striking that
human senses and human intelligence are able to take in only a
fraction of these riches. From this fraction, scientists, artists,
all of us construct encompassing abstractions and stereotypes. This
basic human trait is at the heart of "Conquest of Abundance", the
book on which Feyerabend was at work when he died in 1994. Prepared
from drafts of the manuscript left at his death, working notes, and
lectures and articles Feyerabend wrote while the larger work was in
progress, "Conquest of Abundance" offers up exploration and
startling insights with the charm, lucidity, and sense of mischief
that are his hallmarks. Feyerabend is fascinated by how we attempt
to explain and predict the mysteries of the natural world, and he
describes ways in which we abstract experience, explain anomalies,
and reduce wonder to formulas and equations. Through his
exploration of the positive and negative consequences of these
efforts, Feyerabend reveals the "conquest of abundance" as an
integral part of the history and character of Western civilization.
Paul Feyerabend (1924-1994) was educated in Europe and held
numerous teaching posts throughout his career, including at the
University of California, Berkeley, from 1959 to 1990. His "Against
Method" - translated into 17 languages - is a classic of modern
philosophy of science. The University of Chicago Press published
his autobiography, "Killing Time", in 1995.
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