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Higher Superstition: The Academic Left and Its Quarrels with Science (Revised)
With the emergence of "cultural studies" and the blurring of once-clear academic boundaries, scholars are turning to subjects far outside their traditional disciplines and areas of expertise. In Higher Superstition scientists Paul Gross and Norman Levitt raise serious questions about the growing criticism of science by humanists and social scientists on the "academic left." This paperback edition of Higher Superstition includes a new afterword by the authors .
Book Details
- Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
- Publish Date: Nov 6th, 1997
- Pages: 348
- Language: English
- Edition: Revised - undefined
- Dimensions: 9.01in - 6.01in - 0.95in - 1.03lb
- EAN: 9780801857072
- Recommended age: 18-UP
- Categories: • Reference• Philosophy & Social Aspects• General
About the Author
Gross, Paul R.: - Paul R. Gross, former director and president of the Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, is University Professor of Life Sciences, Emeritus, at the University of Virginia and a visiting scholar at Harvard University.
Levitt, Norman: - Norman Levitt is professor of mathematics at Rutgers University and the author of Grassmannians and Gauss Maps in Piecewise-Linear Topology.
Praise for this book
We should be thankful that Gross and Levitt have provided a wake-up call. Their significant overview of the thinking of those who teach our lawyers, journalists and teachers should be read by all who are concerned by the decline of the status of science in our times.
-- "Physics Today"At last, somebody has performed the invaluable service of exploding the pretentions of those who think every equation derived this century undermines the fabric of western thought.
-- "New Statesman"The authors' shredding of such luminaries of postmodernism and feminism as Stanley Aronowitz, Sandra Harding, and Evelyn fox Keller, among others, is not always charitable, [but] it is invariably compelling and frequently devastating.
--Elizabeth Fox-Genovese "Washington Times"