Publication

1999 - Routledge, New York, USA, New York (State)

Language

English

Word Count

14,750 words, Guess

Page Count

59 pages

Identifiers

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  • LibraryThing360413

Classifications

  • DDC192
  • LCCB1649.P64 R36 1999

Description

The callous savageries of Both Marxism and fascism shared a faith in what Karl Popper called "Historicism": the belief that the future could be predicted and that man had to align himself with its bloody progress. Totalitarianism, Popper maintained, was based on ideas implicit in western philosophy, from Plato to Hegel and Marx. At a time when Communism and fascism were luring to many intellectuals, Popper attacked their philosophical roots with reasonableness and skepticism.

Subjects

Series Statement

  • The great philosophers, 16

Other Editions

  • PopperRoutledge1999-01-01

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