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. For all their variety in theme and
occasion, the essays in this book share a consistent philosophical
purpose. 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. The
appeal to reason, he insists, is empty, and must be replaced by a
notion of science that subordinates it to the needs of citizens and
communities. Provocative, polemical and rigorously argued, Farewell
to Reason will infuriate Feyerabend's critics and delight his many
admirers.
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