Popper

Popper-Lynkeus, Josef (1838-1921): Phantasien eines Realisten, Dresden 1899

Von Lynkeus. Dresden: Verlag von Carl Reissner, 1899. 1st Edition. vi+214pp. Publisher's straight-grained green cloth with gilt-stamped spine, red front lettering, marbled endpapers, and all edges marbled. An attractive albeit not elaborate Jugendstil binding. Upper corners bumped but a bright, handsome copy. With a pencil note to the title-page by the notable psychologist and early Freud scholar, Saul Rosenzweig (1907-2004), stating that the first edition was banned in Austria. The note is signed "SR Feb 16, 1957". Rosenzweig discussed Freud & Popper-Lykeus in his 1958 paper "The Idiocultural Dimension of Psychotherapy," pp. 9-50 in Vol. 5 of Psychoanalsyis and the Social Sciences, ed. by Muensterberger & Axelrod. Popper (who published under the pseudonym "Lynkeus") was an Austrian inventor, poet, and socialist philosopher, mostly forgotten today but of considerable note in his day. His only fictional work, Phantasies of a Realist "consists of 80 sketches, short tales, or dialogues, many of which deal with some controversial issue of the day. Popper, in his autobiography, stated that at least one-sixth of the stories were recorded shortly after awakening. He collected these stories for 33 years without any conscious interest in publishing them, and when he did suddenly decide to publish, he carried out his intent in secret." [Ernest S. Wolf & Harry Trosman "Freud and Popper-Lynkeus" JAPA (1974): 22:123-141]. OCLC locates only four copies of the first edition: SUNY at Fredonia, Michigan State, Antioch, and Cleveland HS Lib. 1 pound 6.0 ounces = 626 grams. 7.9 x 5.3 x 1.0 inches = 19.8 x 13.3 x 2.5cm. Banned in Vienna within weeks of publication because of its alleged immorality, the book continued to be printed in Germany, eventually going into 21 editions. Wolf & Trosman believe that Freud did not read it until the 1909 second edition appeared -- indeed, the second edition is in Freud's library but not the first (see J. Keith Davies & Gerhard Fichtner's Freud's Library: A Comprehensive Catalogue, where one finds that Freud owned eleven of Popper's books). Freud delighted in Popper's foreshadowings of his own ideas about the unconscious and wrote two small pieces about Popper, in 1923 and 1932 (SE vols 19 & 22). HB

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Artigas, Mariano: The Ethical Nature of Karl Popper's Theory of Knowledge. Including Popper's unpublished comments on Bartley and critical rationalism. Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt/M., New York, Wien Peter Lang Vlg. 1999. ISBN: 978-3-906763-10-1
This book invites to interpret Karl Popper under the light of his ethical attitudes. In the first part a previously unpublished text by Popper is reproduced and commented which is most relevant to acquire a new insight on Popper's philosophy and should be taken into account in any future interpretation of it. In the second part, under the light of the new insight, the ethical roots of Popper's theory of knowledge are analysed, jointly with the meaning and reach of his fallibilism.

153 pp., 1 ill. Pb. *neuwertig*

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Markl, Peter / Kadlec, Erich (eds.): Karl Popper's Response to 1938. Frankfurt am Main, Berlin, Bern, Bruxelles, New York, Oxford, Wien Peter Lang Vlg. 2008. ISBN: 978-3-631-58134-6
When Karl Popper received the news of the events in Vienna, March 1938, in his New Zealand exile, he decided to start working on two books which became classics in political philosophy - his theory of an open democratic society. The volume deals with the lasting significance of Popper's thoughts and aspects of the genesis of "The Poverty of Historicism" and the two volumes of "The Open Society". After an essay on Popper's personality and philosophy, the following essays deal with the difficult search for the remnants of the manuscript of Popper's first book on epistemology, with the birth of the "Open Society", Popper's ethics, his path from evolutionary biology to his late evolutionary thinking and the role of Popper's objective knowledge in a modern knowledge society.

161 pp. Pb. *neuwertig*

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Popper, Karl Raimund; Popper, Karl R.. The Open Society and its Enemies Vol 2 (Rev. ) The High Tide of Prophesy, Hegel, Marx, and the Aftermath. Princeton, New Jersey U. S. A.: Princeton University Press, 1971.
Marfree, acidfree later prtg in shiny photographic wraps as shown; looks unread no names, not marked-in, underscored, clearance or discard. Mails from NYC usually within 12 hours. ; 8.3 x 5.4 x 1.1 inches; 420 pages; \nProduct Description Popper was born in 1902 to a Viennese family of Jewish origin. He taught in Austria until 1937, when he emigrated to New Zealand in anticipation of the Nazi annexation of Austria the following year, and he settled in England in 1949. Before the annexation, Popper had written mainly about the philosophy of science, but from 1938 until the end of the Second World War he focused his energies on political philosophy, seeking to diagnose the intellectual origins of German and Soviet totalitarianism. The Open Society and Its Enemies was the result. In the book, Popper condemned Plato, Marx, and Hegel as "holists" and "historicists"--a holist, according to Popper, believes that individuals are formed entirely by their social groups; historicists believe that social groups evolve according to internal principles that it is the intellectual's task to uncover. Popper, by contrast, held that social affairs are unpredictable, and argued vehemently against social engineering. He also sought to shift the focus of political philosophy away from questions about who ought to rule toward questions about how to minimize the damage done by the powerful. The book was an immediate sensation, and--though it has long been criticized for its portrayals of Plato, Marx, and Hegel--it has remained a landmark on the left and right alike for its defense of freedom and the spirit of critical inquiry.. 069101972X.

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