Its significance surely also lies in conveying Feyerabend's spirit - which shines through on page after pageīorn in Vienna, Austria in 1924, Feyerabend describes his youth, including the strong and lasting influence of a suicidal mother (who took her life in 1943). The account is not entirely reliable, but certainly close enough to the truth except for some details. His autobiography relies on various stray sources that he did manage to keep, and of course memory.
It is an entertaining, though far too cursory account, of the fascinating and varied life of one of this centuries most curious philosophers.Ĭompleted shortly before the authors death, the last pages written when he lay partially paralyzed with an inoperable brain tumor, there is some sense of urgency about the writing.įeyerabend's life seems to have been an often fun and wild ride and he conveys this well, though many significant details are missing.įeyerabend acknowledges upfront (or would have us believe) that he kept no careful record of his life and threw away much of the documentation one usually preserves - a family album thrown away "to make room for what I then thought were more important books", letters ("even from Nobel Prize winners"), and so on. In his autobiography Paul Feyerabend skims across a fascinating and rich life. We acknowledge (and remind and warn you) that they may, in fact, be entirely unrepresentative of the actual reviews by any other measure. Similarly the illustrative quotes chosen here are merely those the complete review subjectively believes represent the tenor and judgment of the review as a whole.
Please note that these ratings solely represent the complete review 's biased interpretation and subjective opinion of the actual reviews and do not claim to accurately reflect or represent the views of the reviewers. But in his instructive, stubborn and unbending refusal to be dazzled by theory, he still has no rival." - Nancy Maull, The New York Times Book Review "There is much to admire and much to frustrate admiration in the account.What attention is paid the book is generally favorable, with some complaints about the lack of detail and the ease with which Feyerabend dismisses certain parts of his life. Most of the "reviews" are more concerned with going over Feyerabend's philosophy and influence as a whole than actually reviewing the book in question (which is why there are no grade summaries for most of them). General information | review summaries | our review | links | about the author Trying to meet all your book preview and review needs.
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