Wednesday, October 22, 2003

Reading Feyerbend's Conquest of Abundance. Posted here Wednesday, October 22, 2003 at 3:17:03 PM       I have been spending the day reading Paul Feyerabend's Conquest of Abundance. I attended Many seminars with him when I was a graduate student at Berkeley. His influence was pervasive and attitudinal more than substantive and precise. The book is of a peace with trying to show the science is a perspective among perspectives, perspective of social costs in terms of the complexity and humanity of our world. So, just to note that I am reading it, and very struck by his early references To some of my favorite thinkers such Eric Voegelin, Martha Nussbaum, Bruno Snell, Auerbach.   Note the coorespondence of the ideas with the review by Nussbaum just posted. ********