Killing Time

The Autobiography of Paul Feyerabend

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Killing Time

The Autobiography of Paul Feyerabend

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Killing Time: The Autobiography of Paul Feyerabend is an autobiography by philosopher Paul Feyerabend. The book details, amongst other things, Feyerabend’s youth in Nazi-controlled Vienna, his military service, notorious academic career, and his multiple romantic conquests. The book’s title, Killing Time is a play on the homophone Feierabend, a German compound noun meaning ‘the workday’s end and the evening following it’.

Feyerabend barely managed to finish writing the book, lying in a hospital bed with an inoperable brain tumor and the left side of his body paralyzed, and he died shortly before it was released. Killing Time was first published in an Italian translation (by Alessandro de Lachenal) in 1994, with the English original as well as German (by Joachim Jung) and Spanish (by Fabián Chueca) translations following the year afterward. It is one of Feyerabend’s best-known works.

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203

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Cover of: Matando El Tiempo
Matando El Tiempo
July 1998, Debate
Paperback in Spanish
Cover of: Tuer le temps
Tuer le temps
April 11, 1997, Seuil
Paperback
Cover of: Zeitverschwendung.
Zeitverschwendung.
August 1, 1997, Suhrkamp
Paperback in German
Cover of: Killing Time
Killing Time: The Autobiography of Paul Feyerabend
November 15, 1996, University Of Chicago Press
Paperback in English - New Ed edition
Cover of: Killing time
Killing time: The autobiography of Paul Feyerabend
1995, University of Chicago Press
in English
Cover of: Zeitverschwendung
Zeitverschwendung
1995, Suhrkamp Verlag
Hardcover in German - 1. Auflage
Cover of: Killing Time
Killing Time
Publish date unknown, University of California Press
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First Sentence

"A few years ago I became interested in my ancestors and the early years of my life."

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Paperback
Number of pages
203
Dimensions
8.5 x 5 x 0.7 inches
Weight
9.9 ounces

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OL9813744M
ISBN 10
0226245322
ISBN 13
9780226245324
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89164
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147379

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