Edition: 1999
Pages: 228
Series: EL
ISBN: 9788842058427

Killing Time, an Autobiography

Paul K. Feyerabend

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Feyerabend finished writing his autobiography in the last month of his life, and the volume is a self-portrait of one of the most original and influential intellectuals of the end of the Millennium, without whom the «modern» understanding of science would have been impossible. Rarely has a man of such philosophical depth has related his life in such a honest, tender and happy way. «Paul Feyerabend was the Norman Mailer of philosophers... brilliant, daring, courageous, original and extravagant» (Richard Rorty). «The caustical verve, the studied nonchalance of one of the few true anarchists and free spirits of modern philosophy, are wonderfully revealed in this work. In the same way as Feyerabend's passion for music, and his love for love come to light. A memorable epilogue» (George Steiner). «A fascinating character, a wonderful thinker, one of the greatest philosophers of science of this strange and difficult century» (Giulio Giorello).

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Paul K. Feyerabend

Paul K. Feyerabend (Wien 1924 - Geneva 1994) was a historian and philosopher of science of great polemical verve. He taught Philosophy at the University of California at Berkeley, and the Philosophy of Science at the Polytechnic of Zurich. His most famous book is Contro il metodo (Milan 19915). Laterza has published: Scienza come arte (1984), Dialogo sul metodo (19955), Dialoghi sulla conoscenza (1991), as well as two essays in L. Preta (ed.), Immagini e metafore della scienza (19932), and in M. Ceruti, P. Fabbri, G. Giorello and L. Preta (eds.), Il caso e la libertà (1994). Laterza also published the first world edition of Ammazzando il tempo. Un'autobiografia (1994) which has been translated into Spanish, and is currently being translated into Japanese and Brazilian.

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