The Death of Truth

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This is the first intellectual and personal biography of Thomas S. Kuhn, author of Structure of Scientific Reolutions, one of the biggest scholarly bestsellers of all time and among the most influential books of the last century. Kuhn changed the way we think about the evolutionof ideas - especially scientific ideas - and raised doubts about the reality of long-term 'progress' in scientific concepts. The book paints a vivid picture of Kuhn's troubled career and personal life, as well as a rich portrait of the 20th century scholarly and cultural controversies from which his work emerged.

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