Killing Time: The Autobiography of Paul Feyerabend

Finished only weeks before Paul Feyerabend’s death in 1994, “Killing Time” is a self-portrait of one of this century’s most original and influential intellectuals. Writing about “big” science and “big” philosophy, his experience in the German army, his innumerable love affairs, and the controversy he regularly provoked or the self-doubt he often suffered, Feyerabend traces the trajectory that led him from an isolated, lower-middle-class childhood in Vienna to the height of international academic success. HIs intellectual legacy is immense: the modern sea change in the way we understand science would have been impossible without him. “Killing Time” is the story of his extraordinary life told with tenderness, honesty, and joy.