Philosophy Of Nature
by Paul K. Feyerabend /
2016 / English / EPUB
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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 Ð a project that, as he conveyed in a letter to
Imre Lakatos, almost drove him nuts: “Damn the
,Naturphilosophie.”
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 Ð 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 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 contains numerous pictures and drawings by Feyerabend
himself. It also contains hitherto unpublished biographical
material that will help to round up our overall image of one of the
most influential radical philosophers of the twentieth century.
The volume contains numerous pictures and drawings by Feyerabend
himself. It also contains hitherto unpublished biographical
material that will help to round up our overall image of one of the
most influential radical philosophers of the twentieth century.