false 147380 2 <div>From flea bites to galaxies, from love affairs to shadows, Paul Feyerabend reveled in the sensory and intellectual abundance that surrounds us. He found it equally striking that human senses and human intelligence are able to take in only a fraction of these riches. "This a blessing, not a drawback," he writes. "A superconscious organism would not be superwise, it would be paralyzed." This human reduction of experience to a manageable level is the heart of <i>Conquest of Abundance</i>, the book on which Feyerabend was at work when he died in 1994.<br>Prepared from drafts of the manuscript left at his death, working notes, and lectures and articles Feyerabend wrote while the larger work was in progress, <i>Conquest of Abundance</i> offers up rich exploration and startling insights with the charm, lucidity, and sense of mischief that are his hallmarks. Feyerabend is fascinated by how we attempt to explain and predict the mysteries of the natural world, and he looks at the ways in which we abstract experience, explain anomalies, and reduce wonder to formulas and equations. Through his exploration of the positive and negative consequences of these efforts, Feyerabend reveals the "conquest of abundance" as an integral part of the history and character of Western civilization.<br></div> 946103 1999 Conquest of Abundance: A Tale of Abstraction versus the Richness of Being total:14|5:5|4:4|3:4|2:1|1:0| 14 55 29 3 3 0 false false Tue Jul 15 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Fri May 23 20:59:43 -0700 2008 Fri Jul 18 00:47:07 -0700 2008 more...]]> 0 0 false false Wed Oct 14 13:32:10 -0700 2009 Sun Oct 18 16:44:57 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Wed Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2005 Sun Mar 25 14:06:28 -0700 2007 Mon May 28 09:16:08 -0700 2007 more...]]> 0 0 false false Mon Nov 02 06:35:19 -0800 2009 Mon Nov 02 06:35:19 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Fri Oct 30 14:36:30 -0700 2009 Fri Oct 30 14:36:30 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Thu Oct 22 23:10:23 -0700 2009 Thu Oct 22 23:10:23 -0700 2009 3 0 false false Sat Oct 17 16:22:39 -0700 2009 Sat Oct 17 16:22:39 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Sun Oct 11 23:09:02 -0700 2009 Sun Oct 11 23:09:09 -0700 2009 3 0 false false Sat Jul 11 17:39:47 -0700 2009 Wed Jun 10 19:18:59 -0700 2009 Sat Jul 11 17:39:47 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Fri May 22 14:34:09 -0700 2009 Fri May 22 14:34:09 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Thu May 21 07:29:50 -0700 2009 Thu May 21 07:29:50 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Wed Apr 01 10:40:53 -0700 2009 Wed Apr 01 10:40:53 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Wed Jan 07 08:57:32 -0800 2009 Wed Jan 07 08:57:32 -0800 2009 4 0 false false Sun Dec 28 21:46:13 -0800 2008 Sun Dec 28 21:46:13 -0800 2008 3 0 false false Tue Dec 09 20:54:57 -0800 2008 Tue Dec 09 20:54:57 -0800 2008 0 0 false false Tue Nov 25 12:19:43 -0800 2008 Tue Nov 25 12:19:45 -0800 2008 0 0 false false Sat Oct 11 18:04:16 -0700 2008 Sat Oct 11 18:04:26 -0700 2008 0 0 false false Mon Aug 18 10:06:26 -0700 2008 Mon Aug 18 10:06:26 -0700 2008 4 0 false false Wed Jul 23 22:16:50 -0700 2008 Wed Jul 23 22:16:50 -0700 2008 0 0 false false Wed Jul 23 11:02:21 -0700 2008 Wed Jul 23 11:02:21 -0700 2008 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=147380