Politics Of The Imagination: The Life, Work and Ideas of Charles Fort (Critical Vision) - Softcover

Bennett, Colin

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1900486202 ISBN 13: 9781900486200

Publisher: Headpress, 2002

Synopsis

Foreword by John Keel This account of the life and work of Charles Fort (1874-1932) reveals how the man described as the 'foe of science' in his New York Times obituary spent almost his entire life compiling evidence to show that science was a mere facade which concealed as much as it claimed to have discovered. The inspiration behind such authors as Pauwels and Bergier, John Michell and Theodore Sturgeon, as well as the popular magazine Fortean Times, this biography is a timely investigation of both his life and his ideas.

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Synopsis

Born in Albany, New York, in 1874, Charles Fort spent almost his entire life searching through periodicals in the New York Public Library and the British Museum, compiling evidence to show that science was a mere facade which concealed as much as it claimed to have discovered. In a series of four books - The Book of the Damned, New Lands, Lo! and Wild Talents - he argued that explanations are far more fantastic than the things they are supposed to explain, and that we only use them to get some sleep at night. Science, believed Fort, was a new form of social control whose object was to conceal the fantastical nature of the universe by means of editing out paradoxes, contradictions, miracles, paranormal events - anything that was unusual or which did not fit into a set scheme of things. The "foe of science" is how the New York Times described Fort in its obituary...

About the Author

Colin Bennett is Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Victoria.

Edition details

• Publisher: Headpress
• Publication date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1900486202
• ISBN 13: 9781900486200
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 176