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Author Agassi, Joseph

Title A Philosopher's Apprentice : In Karl Popper's Workshop
Published Amsterdam : Rodopi, 2008

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Description 1 online resource (401 pages)
Series Series in the Philosophy of Karl R. Popper and Critical Rationalism, 5
Series in the Philosophy of Karl R. Popper and Critical Rationalism, 5
Contents A Philosopher's Apprentice; TABLE OF CONTENTS; Abstract; To the Second Edition; Acknowledgement; Prologue; Appendix: Correspondence with Professor Sir Ernst Gombrich; Chapter One: Prelude; Chapter Two: Entering Karl Popper's Famous Seminar; Chapter Three: The Master's Class; Chapter Four: At the Feet of the Great Thinker; Chapter Five: The Philosopher and His Friends and Peers; Chapter Six: The Philosopher and His Workshop; Chapter Seven: The Open Society, Its Mentality and Style; Chapter Eight: The Matter of Intellectual Leadership; Chapter Nine: Epilogue: The Future of Philosophy
Chapter Ten: PostscriptAppendices; Appendix One: Russell on "Logical" Positivism; Appendix Two: Popper versus the "Vienna Circle"; Appendix Three: Carnap and Reichenbach in Retrospect; Appendix Four: The Picture "in Essentials"; Appendix Five: The Heritage of "Vienna Circle"; Appendix Six: Ordinary Language Philosophy; Appendix Seven: Nails on the Socratic Problem; Appendix Eight: Popper on Xenophanes; Letters; Bibliography; Glossary; Index of Names; Index of Subjects
Summary Both a Popper biography and an autobiography, Agassi's A Philosopher's Apprentice tells the riveting story of his intellectual formation in 1950s London, a young brilliant philosopher struggling with an intellectual giant - father, mentor, and rival, all at the same time. His subsequent rebellion and declaration of independence leads to a painful break, never to be completely healed. No other writer has Agassi's psychological insight into Popper, and no other book captures like this one the intellectual excitement around the Popper circle in the 1950s and the struggles of the 1960s and 1970s -
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Subject Popper, Karl R. (Karl Raimund), 1902-1994 -- Friends and associates
SUBJECT Popper, Karl R. (Karl Raimund), 1902-1994 fast
Subject Friendship
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9789401206112
9401206112