Against Method: Outline of an Anarchistic Theory of Knowledge was published in London in 1975 by New Left Books. It began as a long essay of 1970 and was meant to be one half of a joint book with Feyerabend's friend Imre Lakatos, For and Against Method, in which Lakatos would defend scientific rationality and Feyerabend attack it; Lakatos died in 1974, and Feyerabend dedicated the book to him.
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About Paul Feyerabend
Paul Karl Feyerabend (1924–1994) was born in Vienna. He served in the German army in the Second World War and was badly wounded in 1945, an injury that left him walking with a stick for the rest of his life. After the war he studied singing, history, physics and philosophy in Vienna, took his doctorate in philosophy in 1951, and went to London on a British Council scholarship, where he came under the influence of Karl Popper. He taught at Bristol from 1955 and at the University of California, Berkeley, from 1959 until 1990, and also held posts at other universities, including the ETH in Zurich, from which he retired in 1991. His books include Against Method (1975), Science in a Free Society (1978), Farewell to Reason (1987) and the autobiography Killing Time (1995). He died in Switzerland in 1994.