ISBN: 9780765800008 - against the idols of the age: edited with an introduction by roger kimball (5 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: Sehr gut. Octavo. XXXV, 347 pages. Original hardcover with dustjacket in protective mylar. Excellent condition with only very minor signs of external wear. Inscribed on cover page. Clean inside with intact binding. Includes the following contents:- Who was David Stove? / The Cult of Irrationalism in Science / Idols Contemporary and Perennial / Darwinian Fairytales etc. "This volume brings together a representative selection of David Stove's writing. It opens with some of Stove's important attacks on irrationalism in the philosophy of science, and concludes with a generous sampling of his attacks on Darwinism". (Amazon).…

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Zustand: New. 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 .

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Little known outside his native Australia, David Stove was one of the most illuminating and brilliant philosophical essayists of the postwar era. A fearless attacker of intellectual and cultural orthodoxies, Stove left powerful critiques of scientific irrationalism, Darwinian theories of human behavior, and philosophical idealism. He was also an occasional essayist of considerable charm and polemical snap. Stove's writing 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 representative selection of Stove's writing and is an ideal introduction to his work. …

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