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Author | Paul Feyerabend |
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Language | English |
Subjects | History of science Philosophy of Science Epistemology |
Publisher | University of Chicago Press |
Publication date | 1999 |
Media type | Print (Hardcover and Paperback) |
Pages | 285 |
ISBN | 9780226245348 |
Preceded by | Killing Time |
Followed by | Philosophy of Nature |
Conquest of Abundance: A Tale of Abstraction versus the Richness of Being is the last book by the Austrian philosopher of science Paul Feyerabend, published posthumously by the University of Chicago Press in 1999. It is edited by Bert Terpstra and includes a foreword from Grazia Borrini-Feyerabend, Feyerabend's 4th and final wife. The book was uncompleted due to Feyerabend's death in 1994 and was written to fulfill a promise made to Borrini-Feyerabend.[1] The unfinished manuscript was published alongside several other previously published papers that engaged with the core themes of the book.