Maladies of Modernity: Scientism and the Deformation of Political Order

by David N. Whitney

This work explores the complex relationship between science and politics. More specifically, it focuses on the problem of scientism. Scientism is a deformation of science, which unnecessarily restricts the scope of scientific inquiry by placing a dogmatic faith in the method of the natural sciences. Its adherents call for nothing less than a complete transformation of society. Science becomes the idol that can magically cure the perpetual maladies...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1587314894
• ISBN13: 9781587314896
• Release Date: March 2019
• Publisher: St. Augustine's Press
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.0"