I'm starting chapter 5 of the book and thought you would like the opening paragraph. Here it is in quotes. The parentheses are in the book (not added by me):
"In previous chapters, we discuss how science tipped from open-mindedness to dogma and blind conviction (chapter 1), how its practical applications isolate people from one another and from nature (chapter 2), how its utopian pursuit of an artificial and rationally controllable universe equates to the destruction of the essence of life (chapter 3), and how its belief in objectivity and measurability of the world leads to absurd arbitrariness and subjectivity (chapter 4). In this chapter, we will discuss the fate of another great ambition of science: to liberate man from his anxiety and insecurity and his moral commandments and prohibitions."
Needless to say, chapter 5 goes on to show that science didn't fare any better on those last points.
I'm starting chapter 5 of the book and thought you would like the opening paragraph. Here it is in quotes. The parentheses are in the book (not added by me):
"In previous chapters, we discuss how science tipped from open-mindedness to dogma and blind conviction (chapter 1), how its practical applications isolate people from one another and from nature (chapter 2), how its utopian pursuit of an artificial and rationally controllable universe equates to the destruction of the essence of life (chapter 3), and how its belief in objectivity and measurability of the world leads to absurd arbitrariness and subjectivity (chapter 4). In this chapter, we will discuss the fate of another great ambition of science: to liberate man from his anxiety and insecurity and his moral commandments and prohibitions."
Needless to say, chapter 5 goes on to show that science didn't fare any better on those last points.