December 9, 2024
Against the Idols of the Age
Free Download David Stove, "Against the Idols of the Age"
English | ISBN: 0765809109 | 2001 | 384 pages | EPUB, PDF | 438 KB + 18 MB
Little known outside his native Australia, David Stove was one of the most illuminating and brilliant philo-sophical essayists of the postwar era. A fearless at-tacker of intellectual and cultural orthodoxies, Stove left powerful critiques of scientific irrationalism, Dar-winian theories of human behavior, and philosophi-cal idealism. He was also an occasional essayist of considerable charm and polemical snap. Stove’s writ-ing is both rigorous and immensely readable. It is, in the words of Roger Kimball, "an invigorating blend of analytic lucidity, mordant humor, and an amount of common sense too great to be called ‘common.’" Against the Idols of the Age brings together a repre-sentative selection of Stove’s writing and is an ideal introduction to his work.
The book opens with some of Stove’s most impor-tant attacks on irrationalism in the philosophy of sci-ence. He exposes the roots of this fashionable attitude, tracing it through writers like Paul Feyerabend andThomas Kuhn to Karl Popper. Stove was a born controversialist, so it is not surpris-ing that when he turned his attention to contemporary affairs he said things that are politically incorrect. The topical essays that make up the second part of the book show Stove at his most withering and combative. Whether the subject is race, feminism, the Enlightenment, or the demand for "non-coercive philosophy," Stove is on the mark with a battery of impressive arguments expressed in sharp, uncompromis-ing prose.
Read more
Buy Premium From My Links To Get Resumable Support,Max Speed & Support Me
Links are Interchangeable – Single Extraction
Formal Aspects of Component Software 9th International Symposium, FACS 2012, Mountain View, CA, USA, September 12-14, 2012. Re
Don’t Ask the Blind Guy for Directions A 30,000-Mile Journey for Love, Confidence and a Sense of Belonging
Novel Approaches in Biopreservation for Food and Clinical Purposes
About Author
