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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
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Paperback, 626 pages
Published
June 30th 2010
by Cambridge University Press
(first published October 23rd 2000)
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Hacohen's commitment to Popperian liberalism is strong; His scholarly integrity is of the highest order. What emerges, almost despite the author, is a portrait of an intellectual monster and his equally dishonest allies in the London School of Economics:
"Popper and Mises turned out to be prophetic, after all: Socialism didn't work. Not only was Socialism unable to persuade the Proletariat to rise beyond its genetic inability to respond to an incompetent teacher; Socialism itself had an innate t ...more
"Popper and Mises turned out to be prophetic, after all: Socialism didn't work. Not only was Socialism unable to persuade the Proletariat to rise beyond its genetic inability to respond to an incompetent teacher; Socialism itself had an innate t ...more
tells a lot about Popper as a person; insights into his early interest in teaching and learning and into his political philosophy
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