The Science of Pleasure: Cosmos and Psyche in the Bourgeois World View

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Routledge, 1990 - Social Science - 364 pages
In this rich and original work, the author argues that science is the highest expression of bourgeois thought and whilst it may have liberated mankind, it has also devised new forms of repression, discipline and control.

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About the author (1990)

Ferguson is a Reader in Sociology at the University of Glasgow.

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TitleThe Science of Pleasure: Cosmos and Psyche in the Bourgeois World View
AuthorHarvie Ferguson
PublisherRoutledge, 1990
ISBN0415044588, 9780415044585
Length364 pages
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