Higher Superstition: The Academic Left and Its Quarrels with Science

Gross, Paul R. R.

ISBN 10: 0801857074 / ISBN 13: 9780801857072

Published by Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Higher Superstition: The Academic Left and Its Quarrels with Science
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Publication Date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0801857074
• ISBN 13: 9780801857072
• Binding: paperback
• Condition: Good
• Weight: 480 grams

About this title

Synopsis

The widely acclaimed response to the postmodernists attacks on science, with a new afterword.

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 edition of Higher Superstition includes a new afterword by the authors.

About the Authors

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.