Contradiction Set Free
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First published in in 1976, Hermann Levin Goldschmidt's Contradiction Set Free, (Freiheit für den Widerspruch), reflects the push to explore new forms of critical thinking that gained momentum in the decade between Theodor Adorno's Negative Dialectics of 1966 and Paul Feyerabend's Against Method in 1975.
The book articulates Goldschmidt's reclamation of an epistemologically critical position that acknowledges the deep underlying link between the modes of production of knowledge and the social and political life they produce. In signalling a breakout from the academic rut and its repressive hold, Goldschmidt pointed beyond the ossified methods of a philosophical discourse whose oppressive consequences could no longer be ignored.Contradiction Set Free makes available for the first time in English a pivotal work by one of the great critical thinkers of the 20th century.
Hermann Levin Goldschmidt
Hermann Levin Goldschmidt (1914-1998)was an independent philosopher and champion of dialogical thinking. A native of Berlin, he fled to Zurich in 1938 and continued to live and work in Switzerland until his death in 1998.
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John Koster is the author of several books about American history including OPERATION SNOW, the background story of how Stalinist intrigue led to the attack on Pearl Harbor, which led to two documentaries on TV, one American and one Japanese. He is the author of CUSTER SURVIVOR (History Publishing) the story of how one member of George Armstrong Custer's Seventh Cavalry actually escaped from the initial encirclement at the Little Bighorn. His first book THE ROAD TO WOUNDED KNEE (Bantam) won the New Jersey Sigma Delta Chi Award for Distinguished Public Service and sold over 400,000 copies.
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