Malachi Haim Hacohen. Karl Popper - The Formative Years, 1902-1945: Politics and Philosophy in Interwar Vienna

Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2002. — 626 p. — ISBN10: 0521890551; ISBN13: 978-0521890557This 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.Progressive philosophy and the politics of Jewish assimilation in Late Imperial Vienna
The Great War, the Austrian Revolution, and communism
The early 1920s: school reform, socialism, and cosmopolitanism
The pedagogic institute and the psychology of knowledge, 1925–28
The philosophical breakthrough, 1929–32
The Logic of Scientific Discovery and the philosophical revolution
Red Vienna, the 'Jewish Question', and emigration, 1936–37
Social science in exile, 1938–39
The Open Society, 1940–42
he rebirth of liberalism in science and politics, 1943–45