Karl Popper - The Formative Years, 1902-1945
ISBN-10: 0521470536
ISBN-13: 9780521470537
$147.00
Book Specs
Binding
Trade Cloth
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Published on
Oct 23, 2000
Edition
1st Edition
Dimensions
6.00x1.50x9.00 Inches
Weight
2.14 Pounds
About the Book
This intellectual biography recovers the legacy of Karl Popper (1902-1994), the progressive, cosmopolitan, Viennese socialist who combated fascism, revolutionized the philosophy of science, and envisioned the Open Society. Malachi Hacohen draws a compelling portrait of the philosopher, the assimilated Jewish intelligentsia, and the vanished culture of Red Vienna, which was decimated by Nazism. Seeking to rescue Popper from his postwar conservative and anticommunist reputation, Hacohen restores his works to their original Central European contexts and, at the same time, shows that they have urgent messages for contemporary politics and philosophy.