Karl Popper - The Formative Years, 1902-1945: Politics and Philosophy in Interwar Vienna (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780521470537)

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.

Author: Malachi Haim Hacohen
ISBN-10: 0521470536
ISBN-13: 9780521470537
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 10/23/2000
Pages: 626
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 2.39lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.50d

Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 08/01/2000 pg. 109
New York Times 11/12/2000 pg. 28
Choice 04/01/2001 pg. 1475
Library Journal 08/09/2000
Publishers Weekly 08/11/2000