Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Notturno, Mark A.

Titel

Popper’s Critique of Scientific Socialism, or Carnap and His Co-Workers

Ist Teil von

• Philosophy of the social sciences, 1999-03, Vol.29 (1), p.32-61

Ort / Verlag

Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications

Erscheinungsjahr

1999

Quelle

Worldwide Political Science Abstracts

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Karl Popper is widely regarded as the twentieth century’s greatest critic of Marxism. This article, based upon his 1942-47 correspondence with Rudolf Carnap, shows that Popper’s critique of scientific socialism had less to do with Marx’s social goals than with the attitudes that Marxists adopted toward their means of achieving them. It also reveals how Carnap, who tried to keep his politics separate from his epistemology, managed to mix the two when refusing to give Popper his wholehearted support in finding both a publisher for The Open Society and Its Enemies and a position that would give him greater opportunities for research.