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| Named Person: | Karl R Popper; Karl R Popper |
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| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Jeremy Shearmur |
| ISBN: | 0415097266 9780415097260 0415097274 9780415097277 |
| OCLC Number: | 34318936 |
| Description: | xi, 217 p. ; 23 cm. |
| Contents: | 1. The Development of Popper's Political Philosophy -- 2. The Open Society and the Poverty of Historicism -- 3. After the Open Society -- 4. Values and Reason -- 5. Popper, Liberalism and Modified Essentialism -- 6. The Contemporary Relevance of Popper's Work. |
| Responsibility: | Jeremy Shearmur. |
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Abstract:
Jeremy Shearmur draws upon archival data to introduce Popper's political ideas by way of a discussion of their development. He goes on to present a critical survey of some of the themes from Popper's The Open Society and its Enemies and The Poverty of Historicism, along with a discussion of the political significance of some of his later philosophical ideas. The book then draws on wider themes within Popper's philosophy to offer striking critical re-interpretations of his ethical ideas, and of his social theory, and concludes with an extended discussion that suggests Popper's views should have been closer to classical liberalism than they were.
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