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This is the self-portrait of one of this century's most original and influential intellectuals, told with fierce honesty and joy. Writing about "big" science and "big" philosophy, his experience in the German army, his innumerable love affairs, and the controversy he provoked or the self-doubt he suffered, Feyerabend trace the trajectory that led him from an isolated, lower-middle class childhood in Vienna to the height of international academic success.
| Size | | Height: | 8.8 in | | Width: | 5.5 in | | Thickness: | 0.8 in | | Weight: | 10.4 oz |
Industry Reviews
"There is much to admire and much to frustrate admiration in the account. But in his instructive, stubborn and unbending refusal to be dazzled by theory, [Paul Feyerabend] still has no rival."
New York Times Book Review - Nancy Maull (05/28/1995)
"No matter how many quotations the publishers put on the back of this book, from famous intellectuals who knew and admired Feyerabend as a person, from people willing to testify to his cleverness, one gets from it the impression that he had something missing. Whether one thinks of that misssing piece as what Nietzsche called the 'spirit of gravity', or as a clear moral vision, will depend on one's own moral and aesthetic perspective. That said, this book is a remarkable frank series of snapshots from a very varied career, Feyerabend's self-deprecating modesty, sardonic humor and love for his last wife come through very clearly indeed. An admirer of Wittgenstein will be thrilled to find out that Feyerabend considered himself recently to have become a Wittgensteinian."
Times Literary Supplement - John Preston (06/23/1995)
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