Description
Book SynopsisThis paperback edition of Higher Superstition includes a new afterword by the authors.
Trade ReviewWe 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
Table of ContentsPreface to the 1998 Edition
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1. The Academic Left and Science
Chapter 2. Some History and Politics: Natural Science and its Natural Enemies
Chapter 3. The Cultural Construction of Cultural Constructivism
Chapter 4. The Realm of Idle Phrases: Postmodernism, Literary Theory, and Cultural Criticism
Chapter 5. Auspicating Gender
Chapter 6. The Gates of Eden
Chapter 7. The Schools of Indictment
Chapter 8. Why Do the People Imagine a Vain Thing?
Chapter 9. Does it Matter?
Notes
Supplementary Notes to the 1998 Edition
References
Index
