Popper's legacy : rethinking politics, economics and science / / Raphael Sassower

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910822023003321
• Autore: Sassower Raphael
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2014
• ISBN: 1-317-49372-9; 1-317-49373-7; 1-315-71203-2; 1-282-94330-8; 9786612943300; 1-84465-379-X
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (vii, 151 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
• Disciplina: 192
• Soggetti: Philosophy and science
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: First published 2006 by Acumen.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Introduction -- 1. The open society as liberty -- A brief survey -- Critical reception -- Scientific methodology as social practice -- Critical rationalism -- 2. Capitalism as economic equality and freedom -- Historical context -- Political economy as economic theory and political agenda -- Popper's own concerns with economic theory -- Contemporary uses and misuses of Popper's ideas -- 3. Methodology as applied to individualism --Individualism as method and practice: positivism and sociology -- Situated knowledge: the feminist parallel to situational logic -- Methodological individualism -- 4. The predicament of applied Popperianism -- The moral sense of Popperianism -- Popper and postmodern technoscience -- The Popperian predicament.
• Sommario/riassunto: Most commentators think of Karl Popper and his intellectual legacy primarily in terms of his philosophy of science, while some recall his political philosophy. In Popper's Legacy, Raphael Sassower foregrounds Popper's political and economic ideas and relates them to his methodology of science, showing along the way the ideological convictions they provide. The primacy of Popper's ideological convictions and the context that gave rise to them are used as a ; springboard to understanding his revolutionary impact on the late twentieth century and his continued influence today. Neither biographical nor scholarly in the traditional sense, Sassower's analysis is more a cultural critique that incorporates the relevant elements in Popper's life and writings and the circumstances under which some books and essays were rejected or well received. By examining Popper in the round, and in particular his moral and psychological insights, Popper's Legacy presents an account and evaluation of Popper's thought that both his critics and acolytes will find fascinating.