Contradiction Set Free

First published in in 1976, Hermann Levin Goldschmidt-s Contradiction Set Free, (Freiheit f-r den Widerspruch), reflects the push to explore new forms of critical thinking that gained momentum in the decade between Theodor Adorno-s Negative Dialectics of 1966 and Paul Feyerabend-s Against Method in 1975.The book articulates Goldschmidt-s reclamation of an epistemologically critical position that acknowledges the deep underlying link between the modes of production of knowledge and the social and political life they produce. In signalling a breakout from the academic rut and its repressive hold, Goldschmidt pointed beyond the ossified methods of a philosophical discourse whose oppressive consequences could no longer be ignored.Contradiction Set Free makes available for the first time in English a pivotal work by one of the great critical thinkers of the 20th century.