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Philosopher, Physicist, And Anarchist Paul Feyerabend Was One Of The Most Unconventional Scholars Of His Time. His Book Against Method Has Become A Modern Classic. Yet It Is Not Well Known That Feyerabend Spent Many Years Working On A Philosophy Of Nature That Was Intended To Comprise Three Volumes Covering The Period From The Earliest Traces Of Stone Age Cave Paintings To The Atomic Physics Of The 20th Century -- A Project That, As He Conveyed In A Letter To Imre Lakatos, Almost Drove Him Nuts: Damn The, Naturphilosophie. The Book's Manuscript Was Long Believed To Have Been Lost. Recently, However, A Typescript Constituting The First Volume Of The Project Was Unexpectedly Discovered At The University Of Konstanz. In This Volume Feyerabend Explores The Significance Of Myths For The Early Period Of Natural Philosophy, As Well As The Transition From Homer's Aggregate Universe To Parmenides' Uniform Ontology. He Focuses On The Rise Of Rationalism In Greek Antiquity, Which He Considers A Disastrous Development, And The Associated Separation Of Man From Nature. Thus Feyerabend Explores The Prehistory Of Science In His Familiar Polemical And Extraordinarily Learned Manner. The Volume Con

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Author

Paul K. Feyerabend

Publisher

Polity Press

Published

2016

Language

EN

ISBN

9780745692999

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Philosophy, Science, Nature