The anti-Kuhn article Greg cited sez:
Fuller’s accusation is that
Kuhn was a patio fauvist, a purveyor of
gift-wrapped frissons to the intellectual
bourgeoisie, chocolate revolutions that
exist in the children’s-fiction world of
theories and paradigms, without import
in the real world. Prescinding for the
moment from the question of whether
the defusing of revolutionary zeal is a
good thing, the thesis itself is
interesting, as is the more general thesis
that postmodern and other “high theory”
forms of leftism act mainly to keep
revolutionaries off the streets by
channeling their mental energies into
endless efforts to understand the
incomprehensible.
This entertaining speculation also appears, as an over-the-top sarcastic
retort, in Greg Egan's latest novel TERANESIA.
(BTW, I discuss Egan's writing at some length in my new book TRANSREALIST
FICTION: WRITING IN THE SLIPSTREAM OF SCIENCE; I've just received my first
copy from Greenwood Press in Conn. Alas, the wretched thing costs $US65.00.)
Damien
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