Reviews for Karl Popper--The Formative Years, 1902-1945 Politics and Philosophy in Interwar Vienna

The average rating for Karl Popper--The Formative Years, 1902-1945 Politics and Philosophy in Interwar Vienna based on 2 reviews is 4 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2012-08-18 00:00:00 Christine Dubay Hacohen's commitment to Popperian liberalism is strong; His scholarly integrity is of the highest order. What emerges, almost despite the author, is a portrait of an intellectual monster and his equally dishonest allies in the London School of Economics: "Popper and Mises turned out to be prophetic, after all: Socialism didn't work. Not only was Socialism unable to persuade the Proletariat to rise beyond its genetic inability to respond to an incompetent teacher; Socialism itself had an innate tendency to collapse under systematic mortar attacks on a civilian population..." Full review at:

Review # 2 was written on 2011-08-13 00:00:00 Suzanne Mcgifford tells a lot about Popper as a person; insights into his early interest in teaching and learning and into his political philosophy