{"product_id":"the-tyranny-of-science-paperback-softback-9780745651903","title":"The Tyranny of Science (Paperback \/ softback) 9780745651903","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eThe Tyranny of Science\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003ePaul K. Feyerabend (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780745651903, Polity Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 1 April 2011\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e180 pages\u003cbr\u003e21.6 x 14 x 1.3 cm, 0.204 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"The lectures are engaging, educative and entertaining - public lecturing at its best. Feyerabend offers an intriguing, entertaining and very original application of the history and philosophy of science to contemporary social, intellectual and public issues.\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eBritish Journal for the History of Science\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \"Each of the four lectures is excellent and interrelateswith the others. Feyerabend's appealing and evocative entrances to scientific ideological claims permeate, and their lucidity will make identification and extraction of key concepts readily possible for scholars.\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003eYear's Work in Cultural and Critical Theory\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \"Offers intrepid scholars much to go on (on the relationship between Wittgenstein and Feyerabend), as well as being an entertaining and vigorous philosophical exercise in itself.\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003ePhilosophical Investigations\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \"In this posthumously published book, the maverick philosopher of science Paul Feyerabend questions the dominance of abstract, theoretical, objectivist science over more human modes of thought.\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eNew Scientist\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\"Stimulating, thought-provoking, and hugely entertaining.\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eMorning Star\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\"Its clear conversational style makes the book a useful introduction to Feyerabend's thought.\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eClaremont Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Both the style of presentation, and the question and answer sessions, will make this book accessible to a popular readership. It will be met with enthusiasm by those with a prior engagement with Feyerabend’s work.\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eMetascience\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Feyerabend is not attacking science but rather the ideology of science and the metaphysical pronouncements of philosophers and theoreticians. He makes an eloquent and imaginative plea for the importance of the diverse forms of knowledge embodied in the practicalities of everyday life.\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eDavid Bloor, University of Edinburgh\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eThe Tyranny of Science\u003c\/i\u003e is no work of arid scholarship or technical philosophy. It is the work of a philosophical story-teller who recounts 'fairytales' to situate the ideas he discusses. Feyerabend brings science and philosophy down from the heights of abstract theory to the ground of practice and experience which animates them.\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eHoward Sankey, University of Melbourne\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaul Feyerabend is one of the greatest philosophers of science of the 20th century and his book \u003ci\u003eAgainst Method\u003c\/i\u003e is an international bestseller. In this new book he masterfully weaves together the main elements of his mature philosophy into a gripping tale: the story of the rise of rationalism in Ancient Greece that eventually led to the entrenchment of a mythical ‘scientific worldview’.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e In this wide-ranging and accessible book Feyerabend challenges some modern myths about science, including the myth that ‘science is successful’. He argues that some very basic assumptions about science are simply false and that substantial parts of scientific ideology were created on the basis of superficial generalizations that led to absurd\u003cbr\u003e misconceptions about the nature of human life. Far from solving the pressing problems of our age, such as war and poverty, scientific theorizing glorifies ephemeral generalities, at the cost of confronting\u003cbr\u003e the real particulars that make life meaningful. Objectivity and generality are based on abstraction, and as such, they come at a high price. For abstraction drives a wedge between our thoughts and our\u003cbr\u003e experience, resulting in the degeneration of both. Theoreticians, as opposed to practitioners, tend to impose a tyranny on the concepts they use, abstracting away from the subjective experience that makes\u003cbr\u003e life meaningful. Feyerabend concludes by arguing that practical experience is a better guide to reality than any theory, by itself, ever could be, and he stresses that there is no tyranny that cannot be resisted, even if it is exerted with the best possible intentions.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Provocative and iconoclastic, \u003ci\u003eThe Tyranny of Science\u003c\/i\u003e is one of Feyerabend’s last books and one of his best. It will be widely read by everyone interested in the role that science has played, and continues to play, in the shaping of the modern world.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eChapter 1 Conflict and Harmony \u003cbr\u003eChapter 2 The Disunity of Science \u003cbr\u003eChapter 3 The Abundance of Nature \u003cbr\u003eChapter 4 Dehumanizing Humans \u003cbr\u003eEditor's notes \u003cbr\u003eLiterature\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Sociology \u0026amp; anthropology [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Sociology \u0026amp; anthropology\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Sociology%20\u0026amp;%20anthropology%20%5BJH%5D%22\"\u003eJH\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Polity","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52453398675736,"sku":"9780745651903","price":12.89,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/files\/9780745651903.jpg?v=1785283916","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/the-tyranny-of-science-paperback-softback-9780745651903","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}