The New Nonsense: The End of the Rational ConsensusAnalyzes the embracing of non-rational ideas or beliefs in the face of contradictory evidence as a harbinger of social collapse. |
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... reality , our " swingerism ” may be a matter of borrowed ardor , deriving a good part of its energy not from our overdeveloped gonads but from our undercontrolled fears . * Those whose temperamental bent is toward the conversion of fear ...
... reality , our " swingerism ” may be a matter of borrowed ardor , deriving a good part of its energy not from our overdeveloped gonads but from our undercontrolled fears . * Those whose temperamental bent is toward the conversion of fear ...
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... reality , there is no such thing as a purely rational scientific order ; the process of tech- nological rationality is a political process . ( If I understand him , Marcuse means that the " hidden ends " of science are the real ones ...
... reality , there is no such thing as a purely rational scientific order ; the process of tech- nological rationality is a political process . ( If I understand him , Marcuse means that the " hidden ends " of science are the real ones ...
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... reality of the reported phe- nomena appear all but certain . Swift , short - lived mass conversions of this kind have occurred in the sciences . Klass and , before him , Martin Gardner21 described the case of Professor R. Blondlot , a ...
... reality of the reported phe- nomena appear all but certain . Swift , short - lived mass conversions of this kind have occurred in the sciences . Klass and , before him , Martin Gardner21 described the case of Professor R. Blondlot , a ...
Contents
Introduction | 9 |
On Being a Believer | 33 |
Touch Hate Feel Etc | 42 |
Copyright | |
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