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Unended Quest

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Language
  
English

Dewey Decimal
  
192 B

Author
  
Karl Popper

Subject
  
Autobiography

OCLC
  
15053466

ISBN
  
0-87548-366-6

LC Class
  
B1649.P64 A38

Published
  
1976

Country
  
United States of America

Pages
  
iii, 316 pp. [2002 ed.]

Similar
  
Karl Popper books, Other books

Unended Quest: An Intellectual Autobiography (1976 [2002]) is a book by Karl Popper.

A 2002 edition came out re-paginated with more words per page, two postscripts, and updated bibliography.

The work first appeared with the title "Autobiography of Karl Popper" in The Philosophy of Karl Popper (1974) from the Library of Living Philosophers series.

The book chronicles Popper's life from the beginning, including wider implications he drew from his experiences. In chapter 1, "Omniscience and Fallibility," for example, he describes his apprenticeship to a cabinetmaker while he was a university student. His master invited him to ask anything he liked, because, with due modesty, the master claimed to know everything. From his omniscient master, Popper writes that he became a disciple of Socrates and learned more about the theory of knowledge, including how little he knew, than from his university teachers. Other thematic chapter subjects include music, education, philosophical problems Popper encountered, and his differences from other philosophers, whether earlier or contemporary. These are woven into an account of events in his life and research programmes that he developed. For example, Chapter 24 discusses 2 of his best-known works, The Open Society and Its Enemies and The Poverty of Historicism, and the origins of 'critical rationalism' to describe the approach he espoused.

References

Unended Quest Wikipedia