The Poverty of Historicism

by Karl Popper

Overview

Hailed on publication in 1957 as 'probably the only book published this year that will outlive the century', this is a devastating criticism of the idea that there are fixed laws in history and that human beings are able to predict them.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781138127739
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	09/04/2015
Series:	Routledge Classics
Edition description:	2nd ed.
Pages:	176
Product dimensions:	5.06(w) x 7.81(h) x (d)

About the Author

Karl Popper (1902-94). Philosopher, born in Vienna. One of the most influential and controversial thinkers of the twentieth century.

Table of Contents

HISTORICAL NOTE, PREFACE, Introduction, I The Anti-Naturalistic Doctrines of Historicism, II The Pro-Naturalistic Doctrines of Historicism, III Criticism of the Anti-Naturalistic Doctrines, IV Criticism of the Pro-Naturalistic Doctrines, INDEX

Editorial Reviews

Probably the only book published this year which will outlive the century.

Arthur Koestler

'Probably the only book published this year which will outlive this century.' - Arthur Koestler

'It is good to have this brilliant book at last available in English.' - The Times

'This is one of the three or four most important books of the methodology of the social sciences to appear since the war.' - New Statesman

'Popper's work is of far greater than mere academic value; it has an immediate and manifest bearing on the political decisions that everyone has to make.' - The Listener

'Should be read even by those who will not agree with it.' - Tribune

'This is the theoretical companion to the better-known Open Society and Its Enemies. It puts paid to all attempts at futurology by pointing out that the future depends on new knowledge which by definition we do not have today.' - Samuel Brittan, The Week, 2nd April 2005

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