Paul R. Gross Knihy

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.

The end of the 20th century has seen a turning away from the Enlightenment ideals of rationalism, most distressingly by the American academic community itself. This book probes the impulse to unreason from such unlikely quarters as biomedical science, mathematics, and ecology and takes a critical look at other epistemologic frameworks advanced by those taking up the cudgels against science.