Reception
The book was well received overall, earning largely favorable reviews in the British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, Nature (from Peter Lipton), The New Republic (from Richard Rorty) and New Scientist. Friend and student of Feyerabend Sheldon J. Reaven hailed the autobiography as "delightful" and "revealing", while a reviewer in Contemporary Sociology found the book "by turns charming and infuriating". Prolific reviewer Danny Yee called it "an engaging autobiography of an intriguing individual who lead an eventful life", and remarked that the book could be appreciated by readers uninterested in philosophy of science or who had never heard of Feyerabend. Kirkus Reviews described it as "a fascinating memoir with an ending that will change many people's opinion about the Peck's bad boy of philosophy". The New York Times Book Review gave the article an "A-" grade, with reviewer Nancy Maull commenting that "There is much to admire and much to frustrate admiration in the account. But in his instructive, stubborn and unbending refusal to be dazzled by theory, still has no rival."
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