Abstract

Science in a Free Society is the sequel to Feyerabend's earlier iconoclastic, provocative book, Against Method. As he states in the preface: "Like the earlier book this volume has one aim: to remove obstacles intellectuals and specialists create for traditions different from their own and to prepare the removal of the specialists themselves from the life centers of society". The book is divided into three parts: Part 1 resumes the argument presented in Against Method; part 2 extends the implications of that position to the conception of a "free society"; and part 3 contains a revealing autobiographical account along with answers to his critics--no less inhibited in style than his earlier book. Thus the conclusions in this volume should be viewed as an extension of the arguments of the previous essay.