Higher Superstition: The Academic Left and Its Quarrels with Science - Brossura

Gross, Paul R. R.

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ISBN 10: 0801857074 ISBN 13: 9780801857072

Casa editrice: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997

Riassunto

With the emergence of "cultural studies" and the blurring of once-clear academic boundaries, scholars are turning to subjects far outside their traditional disciplines and areas of expertise. InHigher Superstition scientists Paul Gross and Norman Levitt raise serious questions about the growing criticism of science by humanists and social scientists on the "academic left." This paperback edition ofHigher Superstition includes a new afterword by the authors.

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Recensione:

"An original, brilliant, and important book. The authors clarify the impact, mostly malign, of postmodernism―at least postmodernism in the hands of the second-rate―on the evolving curriculum in higher education."

(Edward O. Wilson, Harvard University)

"We should be thankful that Gross and Levitt have provided a wake-up call. Their significant overview of the thinking of those who teach our lawyers, journalists and teachers should be read by all who are concerned by the decline of the status of science in our times."

(Physics Today)

"At last, somebody has performed the invaluable service of exploding the pretentions of those who think every equation derived this century undermines the fabric of western thought."

(New Statesman)

"The authors' shredding of such luminaries of postmodernism and feminism as Stanley Aronowitz, Sandra Harding, and Evelyn fox Keller, among others, is not always charitable, [but] it is invariably compelling and frequently devastating."

(Elizabeth Fox-Genovese Washington Times)

Descrizione del libro:

Now in paperback―the widely acclaimed response to the postmodernists attacks on science.

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• Editore: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0801857074
• ISBN 13: 9780801857072
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 348