Karl Popper - The Formative Years, 1902 1945

This 2001 biography reassesses philosopher Karl Popper's life and works within the context of interwar Vienna.

Introduction; 1. Progressive philosophy and the politics of Jewish assimilation in Late Imperial Vienna; 2. The Great War, the Austrian Revolution, and communism; 3. The early 1920s: school reform, socialism, and cosmopolitanism; 4. The pedagogic institute and the psychology of knowledge, 1925-28; 5. The philosophical breakthrough, 1929-32; 6. The Logic of Scientific Discovery and the philosophical revolution; 7. Red Vienna, the 'Jewish Question', and emigration, 1936-37; 8. Social science in exile, 1938-39; 9. The Open Society, 1940-42; 10. The rebirth of liberalism in science and politics, 1943-45.