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9780801857072

Higher Superstition

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  • ISBN13:

    9780801857072

  • ISBN10:

    0801857074

  • Format: Nonspecific Binding
  • Copyright: 1997-12-03
  • Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
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Summary

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.

Author Biography

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. Norman Levitt is professor of mathematics at Rutgers University and the author of Grassmannians and Gauss Maps in Piecewise-Linear Topology.

Table of Contents

Preface to the 1998 Edition ix(6)
Acknowledgments xv
ONE The Academic Left and Science
1(15)
TWO Some History and Politics: Natural Science and Its Natural Enemies
16(26)
THREE The Cultural Construction of Cultural Constructivism
42(29)
FOUR The Realm of Idle Phrases: Postmodernism, Literary Theory, and Cultural Criticism
71(36)
FIVE Auspicating Gender
107(42)
SIX The Gates of Eden
149(30)
SEVEN The Schools of Indictment
179(36)
EIGHT Why Do the People Imagine a Vain Thing?
215(19)
NINE Does It Matter?
234(25)
Notes 259(30)
Supplementary Notes to the 1998 Edition 289(16)
References 305(14)
Index 319

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