Against Method vs Discipline and Punish: Which Should You Read?

Cover of Against Method Against Method Paul K. Feyerabend · 1975 ★★★★☆ 4.0 349 pages · ≈ 6 h 28 m · Challenging

Against Method: Outline of an Anarchistic Theory of Knowledge is a 1975 book about the philosophy of science by Paul Feyerabend, in which the author argues that science is an anarchic enterprise, not a nomic (customary)…

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Cover of Discipline and Punish Discipline and Punish Michel Foucault · 1975 ★★★★☆ 4.1 333 pages · ≈ 6 h 10 m · Challenging
“On 2 March 1757 Damiens the regicide condemmed 'to make the amende honorable before the main door of the Church of Paris', where he was to be 'taken and conveyed in a cart, wearing nothing but a a shirt, holding a torch of burning wax weighing two pounds'; then, 'in the said cart, to the place de Greve, where, on a scaffold that will be erected there, the flesh will be torn from his breasts, arms,”

English version of "Surveiller et punir: naissance de la prison"

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Goodreads 4.0 (3605) —
Hardcover 3.8 (10) 4.2 (62)
Google Books 3.5 (3) —
Apple Books — 4.0 (24)

Reception

Against MethodDiscipline and Punish
Ratings 3605 62
Editions 29 30
Film adaptations 1 1
Want to read 11940 —
Reading it now 385 —
Written reviews 253 —
Wikipedia attention 1883 6210
Pages 349 333

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