Feyerabend’s “Science as Art” and Aloïs Riegl: On Progress in Science and Art

Babich, Progress in Science and Art Borderless Philosophy 8 (2025): 1-31. 1. Introduction: Progress and Decline, Evolution and the Primitive The idea of “decadent art” is well-known from its use against cultural elements often associated with Jewish artists during the Nazi era. But, as Paul Feyerabend (1924- 1994) points out, the idea of Verfall wasContinue reading “Feyerabend’s “Science as Art” and Aloïs Riegl: On Progress in Science and Art”