Karl Popper : the formative years, 1902-1945 : politics and philosophy in interwar Vienna
"This biography recovers the legacy of the young Popper, the progressive, cosmopolitan, Viennese socialist who combated fascism, revolutionized the philosophy of science, and envisioned the Open Society. Malachi Hacohen delves into his archives (as well as the archives of his colleagues) and 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." "Hacohen's is a biography that recovers the historical origins and meanings of ideas and renders them relevant to the present."--Jacket
Biographies
664 pages ; 23 cm
9780521890557, 9780521470537, 0521890551, 0521470536
48627565
Progressive philosophy and the politics of Jewish assimilation in late imperial Vienna
The Great War, the Austrian revolution, and communism
The early 1920s: school reform, socialism, and cosmopolitanism
The Pedagogic Institute and the psychology of knowledge, 1925-1928
The pholisophical breakthrough, 1929-1932
The logic of scientific discovery and the philosophical revolution, 1932-1935
Red Vienna, the "Jewish Question," and emigration, 1936-1937
Social science in exile, 1938-1939
The open society, 1940-1942
The rebirth of liberalism in science and politics, 1943-1945
Epilogue: Popper in the postwar world, 1946-1994
Originally published: 2000