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The Poverty of Historicism (Harper Torchbooks. the Academy Library) - Softcover

Popper, Karl R.

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9780061311260: The Poverty of Historicism (Harper Torchbooks. the Academy Library)

Synopsis

The fundamental thesis of this book [is] that the belief in historical destiny is sheer superstition, and that there can be no prediction of the course of human history by scientific or any other rational methods... excerpt from book's Historical Note

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Review

"...it is good to have this brilliant book at last available in English." -- The [London] Times

"Popper's work is of far greater than mere academic value; it has an immediate and manifest bearing on the political decisions that everyone has to make." -- The Listener

"Probably the only book published this year which will outlive this century." -- Arthur Koestler

"This is one of the three or four most important books of the methodology of the social sciences to appear since the war." -- New Statesman

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