Ebook: Higher Superstition: The Academic Left and Its Quarrels with Science

With the emergence of "cultural studies" and the blurring of once-clear academic boundaries, scholars are turning to subjects far outside their traditional disciplines and areas of expertise. In Higher Superstition scientists Paul Gross and Norman Levitt raise serious questions about the growing criticism of science by humanists and social scientists on the "academic left" This paperback edition of Higher Superstition includes a new afterword by the authors.;1. The Academic Left and Science -- 2. Some History and Politics: Natural Science and Its Natural Enemies -- 3. The Cultural Construction of Cultural Constructivism -- 4. The Realm if Idle Phrases: Postmodernism, Literary Theory, and Cultural Criticism -- 5. Auspicating Gender -- 6. The Gates of Eden -- 7. The Schools of Indictment -- 8. Why Do the People Imagine a Vain Thing? -- 9. Does It Matter?.