{"product_id":"against-the-idols-of-the-age-9780765809100","title":"Against the Idols of the Age","description":"\u003cp\u003eLittle known outside his native Australia  David Stove was one of the most illuminating and brilliant philo-sophical essayists of the postwar era. A fearless at-tacker of intellectual and cultural orthodoxies  Stove left powerful critiques of scientific irrationalism  Dar-winian theories of human behavior  and philosophi-cal idealism. He was also an occasional essayist of considerable charm and polemical snap. Stoves writ-ing is both rigorous and immensely readable. It is  in the words of Roger Kimball  \"an invigorating blend of analytic lucidity  mordant humor  and an amount of common sense too great to be called common.\" Against the Idols of the Age brings together a repre-sentative selection of Stoves writing and is an ideal introduction to his work. The book opens with some of Stoves most impor-tant attacks on irrationalism in the philosophy of sci-ence. He exposes the roots of this fashionable attitude  tracing it through writers like Paul Feyerabend andThomas Kuhn to Karl Popper. Stove was a born controversialist  so it is not surpris-ing that when he turned his attention to contemporary affairs he said things that are politically incorrect. The topical essays that make up the second part of the book show Stove at his most withering and combative. Whether the subject is race  feminism  the Enlightenment  or the demand for \"non-coercive philosophy \" Stove is on the mark with a battery of impressive arguments expressed in sharp  uncompromis-ing prose. Against the Idols of the Age concludes with a generous sampling of his blistering attacks on Darwinism. David Stoves writings are an undiscovered treasure. Although readers may dis-agree with some of his opinions  they will find it difficult to dismiss his razor-sharp arguments. Against the Idols of the Age is the first book to make the full range of this important thinker available to the general reader.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45648334290997,"sku":"ByrdShop_0765809109","price":46.43,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780765809100.jpg?v=1781716158","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/against-the-idols-of-the-age-9780765809100","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}