Science Delusion, The : Asking the Big Questions in a Culture of Easy Answers - Softcover
In The Science Delusion, Curtis White argues that the rich philosophical debates of the 19th century have been almost totally abandoned. People no longer wonder """"why is there something instead of nothing?"""" or """"what is our purpose on earth?"""". Instead, students are taught that science can resolve all questions without the aid of philosophy, politics or the humanities. It's a message echoed in the work of the recent glut of bestselling """"new atheists"""".
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Title: The Science Delusion( Asking the Big Questions in a Culture of Easy Answers) <>Binding: Paperback <>Author: CurtisWhite <>Publisher: MelvilleHousePublishing
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"A symptomatic tour of the real sense of anxiety about the disenchantment of all those qualities that make us feel most alive and unique in the world."
--NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW "[White's] brisk takedowns of Hitchens, Hawking, Krauss, Lehrer and others are sharp and necessary, wielding elementary logic against figures who should know better. [White shows] just how easily good science can shade into the self-aggrandizing ideology of scientism."
--Mark Kingwell, GLOBE AND MAIL "There's certainly a very real need to march on that citadel, because the idea that there can be only one kind of truth has to be deeply damaging to the intellectual development of a culture."
--Mark O'Connell, SLATE "An important and necessary book."
--PHILADELPHIA REVIEW OF BOOKS "Thoroughly well researched and astutely put... An essential read."
--POPMATTERS "White's prose is fluid and often enjoyable... White clearly knows his stuff when it comes to classic literature, and offers an interesting sidebar on the development of Romanticism."
--Willamette Week "A bracing and necessary critique by an able arguer."
--TORONTO STAR, Books of Note "A highly readable yet powerful defense of the importance of the humanities against those who believe science to be the last interpretative framework standing. It is destined to become a classic among artists, dreamers, revolutionaries, and anyone who, like Kierkegaard, believes asking questions to be as important a quest as finding answers."
--TOTTENVILLE REVIEW "An enjoyable and worthwhile read."
--CHRISTIAN RESEARCH JOURNAL "A witty critique of scientific overreach that celebrates the totality of human achievement."
--KIRKUS REVIEWS Praise for Curtis White and The Middle Mind "Cogent, acute, beautiful, merciless, and true." --David Foster Wallace "Re-visioning the world takes brawling muscle and a sneer. Curtis White gots that." --Andrei Codrescu "The most inspiringly wicked social critic of the moment . . . White exalts the subversive pleasures of the imagination, not simply as a tactic for individual psychic survival, but also as a spark for collective engagement." --Will Blythe "Curtis White writes out of an admirable intellectual sophistication combined with viscerality, pain, and humor." --John Barth "A master of bewitchments, parodies, and dazzling tropes." --Paul Auster "Not the least pleasure in reading the book resides in the refreshing malevolent irony that transpires from every page. Absolutely indispensable." --Slavoj Žižek
--NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW "[White's] brisk takedowns of Hitchens, Hawking, Krauss, Lehrer and others are sharp and necessary, wielding elementary logic against figures who should know better. [White shows] just how easily good science can shade into the self-aggrandizing ideology of scientism."
--Mark Kingwell, GLOBE AND MAIL "There's certainly a very real need to march on that citadel, because the idea that there can be only one kind of truth has to be deeply damaging to the intellectual development of a culture."
--Mark O'Connell, SLATE "An important and necessary book."
--PHILADELPHIA REVIEW OF BOOKS "Thoroughly well researched and astutely put... An essential read."
--POPMATTERS "White's prose is fluid and often enjoyable... White clearly knows his stuff when it comes to classic literature, and offers an interesting sidebar on the development of Romanticism."
--Willamette Week "A bracing and necessary critique by an able arguer."
--TORONTO STAR, Books of Note "A highly readable yet powerful defense of the importance of the humanities against those who believe science to be the last interpretative framework standing. It is destined to become a classic among artists, dreamers, revolutionaries, and anyone who, like Kierkegaard, believes asking questions to be as important a quest as finding answers."
--TOTTENVILLE REVIEW "An enjoyable and worthwhile read."
--CHRISTIAN RESEARCH JOURNAL "A witty critique of scientific overreach that celebrates the totality of human achievement."
--KIRKUS REVIEWS Praise for Curtis White and The Middle Mind "Cogent, acute, beautiful, merciless, and true." --David Foster Wallace "Re-visioning the world takes brawling muscle and a sneer. Curtis White gots that." --Andrei Codrescu "The most inspiringly wicked social critic of the moment . . . White exalts the subversive pleasures of the imagination, not simply as a tactic for individual psychic survival, but also as a spark for collective engagement." --Will Blythe "Curtis White writes out of an admirable intellectual sophistication combined with viscerality, pain, and humor." --John Barth "A master of bewitchments, parodies, and dazzling tropes." --Paul Auster "Not the least pleasure in reading the book resides in the refreshing malevolent irony that transpires from every page. Absolutely indispensable." --Slavoj Žižek
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- PublisherMELVILLE HOUSE PUBLISHING
- Publication date2014
- ISBN 10 1612193900
- ISBN 13 9781612193908
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages256
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