Feyerabend was: Re: The Unmaking of Fascist Aesthetics

Monica Belevan <[email protected]> Fri, 28 Jun 2002 13:05:05 -0700 (PDT)
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I
 think Feyerabend shares significant tangents with Pynchon, not because of the erotization of fascism, ad infinitum, but idiosyncratically, Against Method seems to relate as a Baederker to the GR cosmology. The inner works of structured chaos and algebraic disaster. 

--Monica

--- Dave Monroe <[email protected]> wrote:
>Having long been a Feyerabend fan, that was almost as
>distressing to me than l'affaire De Man.  See also ...
>
>Lakatos, Imre and Paul Feyerabend.
>   For and against Method: Including Lakatos's
>   Lectures on Scientific Method and the Lakatos-
>   Feyerabend Correspondence.  Ed. Matteo
>   Motterlini.  Chicago: U of Chicago P, 2000.
>
>http://www.press.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/hfs.cgi/00/13766.ctl
>
>And here's ...
>
>Feyerabend, Paul.  Killing Time: The Autobiography
>   of Paul Feyerabend.  Chicago: U of C P, 1995.
>
>http://www.press.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/hfs.cgi/00/12849.ctl
>
>--- Monica Belevan <[email protected]>
>wrote:
>> 
>> Speaking of which, this should also invoke the
>> reference to philosopher Paul Feyerabend, who at 20
>> joined Naziism on account of his having fallen in
>> love with the fascistic aesthetic...
>> 
>> His autobiography, Killing Time, is accessible from
>> Stanford University Press, 1995.
>
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