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Conquest of Abundance: A Tale of Abstraction versus the Richness of Being is the last book by the Austrian philosopher of science Paul Feyerabend, published posthumously by the University of Chicago Press in 1999. It is edited by Bert Terpstra and includes a foreword from Grazia Borrini-Feyerabend, Feyerabend's 4th and final wife.
Conquest of Abundance. A Tale of Abstraction versus the Richness of Being. Paul Feyerabend. Edited by Bert Terpstra. From flea bites to galaxies, from love affairs to shadows, Paul Feyerabend reveled in the sensory and intellectual abundance that surrounds us.
From flea bites to galaxies, from love affairs to shadows, Paul Feyerabend reveled in the sensory and intellectual abundance that surrounds us. He found it equally striking that human senses...
The conquest of abundance is a recurring characteristic of those transformations, but is balanced by startling new insights, revolutions that bring new light as well as new blindness.
1 de ene. de 1999 · From flea bites to galaxies, from love affairs to shadows, Paul Feyerabend reveled in the sensory and intellectual abundance that surrounds us. He found it equally striking that human senses and human intelligence are able to take in only a fraction of these riches.
Conquest of Abundance: A Tale of Abstraction Versus the Richness of Being. Paul Feyerabend. University of Chicago Press (1999) Copy BIBTEX. Abstract. From flea bites to galaxies, from love affairs to shadows, Paul Feyerabend reveled in the sensory and intellectual abundance that surrounds us.
Through his exploration of the positive and negative consequences of these efforts, Feyerabend reveals the "conquest of abundance" as an integral part of the history and character of Western civilization.
