Follies of the Wise: Dissenting Essays

Follies of the Wise: Dissenting Essays

Rating

7.5

The Pequod Review:

Frederick Crews is best known as a persuasive critic of Freud and psychoanalysis, but his essays collected in Follies of the Wise reveal a broader desire to take down anything unscientific and unsupported by evidence. He also branches out to cover Herman Melville in the last chapter.