The Poverty of Historicism
Published by Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, London, 1957
- First Edition
- Signed
- Hardcover
- Used
Seller: RareNonFiction, IOBA, Ladysmith, BC, CanadaRareNonFiction, IOBA
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Condition: Used - Good
US$ 7,500.00
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Initialled (K.R.P.) and briefly inscribed atop front free endpaper by Popper to Harry Kidd in year of publication, when Kidd was Secretary of the London School of Economics where Popper taught. xiv, 166 pages. Index. "Puts paid to all attempts at futurology by pointing out that the future depends on new knowledge which by definition we do not have today." - Samuel Brittan, The Week. "Exposes 'historicism' with such force and precision, and makes so clear its incompatability with any kind of scientific empiricism, that there is no further excuse for confusing these two." - Isaiah Berlin. Popper was "One of the most influential thinkers of the 20th century." - The Daily Telegraph. Quarter-inch incidental mark to page 20, otherwise contents clean and unmarked. Minor cant to spine. Modest loss to dust jacket at corners. A quality signed copy of this momentous work. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
Seller Inventory # 566h1935
Bibliographic details
- Title
- The Poverty of Historicism
- Author
- Popper, Karl R. (Signed)
- Publisher
- Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, London
- Publication year
- 1957
- Condition
- Good
- Dust jacket
- Good
- Signed
- Signed
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Edition
- First English Edition.
- Seller catalogs
- Philosophy, Signed
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