Amodernistyczna filozofia Paula Feyerabenda
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Paul Feyerabend’s philosophy, mainly due to his radically pluralistic
claims, may be regarded as an example of postmodern philosophy of
science. At the same time Feyerabend’s thought contains some strictly
modern ideas and noticing those ideas is important for proper reading
of his works. In this paper, in order to properly understand this
conceptual tension, I compare Feyerabend’s philosophy with Bruno
Latour’s idea of amodernity. The first part of the paper presents
modern and postmodern themes present in Feyerabend’s works. The
second part elucidates the concept of amodernity expounded by Latour
in the essay We have never been modern. In the third part I show that
Feyerabend’s philosophy displays all of the most important features of
amodern way of thinking (in Latour’s sense). In the final section I
discuss how the interpretation of Feyerabend’s thought as an example
of amodern philosophy may be fruitful in further research.