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Karl Popper — The Formative Years, 1902-1945: Politics and Philosophy in Interwar Vienna. - Review - book review
Contemporary Review, April, 2001
Karl Popper -- The Formative Years, 1902-1945: Politics and Philosophy in Interwar Vienna. Malachi H. Hacohen. Cambridge University Press. [pound]35.00/US$54.95. 6l0pages. ISBN 0-521-47053-6. This 'intellectual biography. . . of one of the most widely known philosophers of the twentieth century' shows that the Viennese born Popper 'regarded his political philosophy as the application of the philosophy of science'.
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His anti-fascist book, The Open Society and Its Enemies, quickly became one of the most famous defences of the late nineteenth-century liberal welfare state. This biography of the young Popper traces the 'formation of Popper's philosophy' as he studied in Vienna and is unashamedly aimed at 'the academic left'. The author boasts that he has 'little to say to the right' who might wish to read Popper but, in his view, would misinterpret him. (Conservatives should therefore spend their [pound]35.00 elsewhere.) This book seeks to restore Popper to the Jewish intellectual world of 'fin-de-siecle Vienna' w ith its emphases on progress and socialism as seen in the Habsburg capital. To the author, Karl Popper was not only a product of pre-1933 Vienna but a representation of the city's greatest achievements. This could be called a dual biography, of a city and a man. (E.B.)
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