Killing Time (book)
Killing Time: The Autobiography of Paul Feyerabend is an autobiography by philosopher Paul Feyerabend. The book details, amongst other things, Feyerabend's youth in Nazi-controlled Vienna, his military service, notorious academic career, and vigorous sex life. The book's title, Killing Time is a play on his name in German, Feierabend, meaning 'after work' or 'work-free time'.
Feyerabend barely managed to finish writing the book, lying in a hospital bed in with an inoperable brain tumor and the left side of his body paralyzed, and he died shortly before it was released. Killing Time was first published in Italian in 1994, with an English translation following the year afterward. It is one of Feyerabend's best-known works.
Famous quotes containing the words killing and/or time:
“The most absurd apology for authority and law is that they serve to diminish crime. Aside from the fact that the State is itself the greatest criminal, breaking every written and natural law, stealing in the form of taxes, killing in the form of war and capital punishment, it has come to an absolute standstill in coping with crime. It has failed utterly to destroy or even minimize the horrible scourge of its own creation.”
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