Popper's Legacy: Rethinking Politics, Economics and Science - Softcover

Sassower, Raphael

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1844650677 ISBN 13: 9781844650675

Publisher: Routledge, 2006

Synopsis

The work of Karl Popper has had extraordinary influence across the fields of scientific and social thought. Widely regarded as one of the greatest philosophers of science of the twentieth century, he was also a highly influential social and political philosopher, a proponent and defender of the "open society". "Popper's Legacy" examines Popper in the round, analysing in particular his moral and psychological insights. Once Popper's scientific legacy is couched in political and moral terms, it becomes apparent that his concern for individual autonomy does not come at the expense of institutional guidelines and social conventions. Instead, these guidelines turn out to be essential sanctions for individual freedom. Popper envisions the conduct of the scientific community as paralleling the conduct of any democratically established community. Critical rationality guides the words and actions of all participants and leadership can be replaced without violence. In presenting a critical overview, "Popper's Legacy" reveals the debt many intellectual movements - such as Marxism, feminism, and postmodernism - still owe to Popper.

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Raphael Sassower

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1844650677
• ISBN 13: 9781844650675
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 162