BETWEEN PAUL FEYERABEND’S EPISTEMOLOGICAL DADAISM AND AN EXISTENTIAL ANARCHISM: A CRITICAL DISCOURSE
BETWEEN PAUL FEYERABEND’S EPISTEMOLOGICAL DADAISM AND AN EXISTENTIAL ANARCHISM: A CRITICAL DISCOURSE

Summary/Abstract: Over the years, science both as a discipline and as a method enjoys a primal place in society as a paradigm of rationality, as a model of truth, and as one of the standards of authentic knowledge. However, with the advent of Paul Feyerabend, a postmodernist, the story changed. Paul Feyerabend moved against this privileged position that science has enjoyed over the years. He argued that science could only give comfort to the narrow-minded. That science was becoming over bearing and stretching its schemes beyond boundaries and stated that science cannot be the model or the ideal method for every mode of enquiry because its methodologies have their limitations and this inhibits the advancement of the frontier of knowledge. With this he propounded the theory of epistemological dadaism stating that anything goes, upholding non-methodism as the ideal model and mode against the sole reliance on science. However, employing the critical analytic model of interrogation this paper was able to point out that Paul Feyerabend was proposing his theory oblivious of the fact that his theory invariably enthroned the existential anarchic scenario that also throws up and off his submission as well.

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