Conquest of abundance
a tale of abstraction versus the richness of being
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Author
Contributions
- Terpstra, Bert. - Contributor
Publication
1999 - University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Illinois
Language
English
Word Count
71,250 words, Guess
Page Count
285 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL41036M
- ISBN-100226245330
- OCLC Control Number41439654
- Internet Archiveconquestofabunda0000feye
- Library of Congress Control Number99032398
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- Goodreads961202
- LibraryThing88708
Classifications
- DDC110
- LCCB3240.F483 C66 1999
Description
"From Homeric gods to galaxies, from love affairs to perspective in painting, Paul Feyerabend reveled in the physical and cultural abundance that surrounds us. He found it equally striking that human senses and intelligence are able to take in only a fraction of these riches. From this fraction, scientists, artists, all of us construct the stereotypes and abstractions that shape our sense of reality. This basic human trait is at the heart of Conquest of Abundance, the book on which Feyerabend was at work when he died in 1994. This book, his last, is a testimony to major developments in his thought."--BOOK JACKET.
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