II.9. Karl Popper et la destructivité
The Open Society and its Enemies represents the “war effort” of the Vienna-born former socialist Karl Popper, who fled fascism and became an assistant professor in New Zealand. In the book, he argues that totalitarianism is as old as humanity and that Plato and Hegel were its forerunners. However,...
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| Online adgang: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Summary: | The Open Society and its Enemies represents the “war effort” of the Vienna-born former socialist Karl Popper, who fled fascism and became an assistant professor in New Zealand. In the book, he argues that totalitarianism is as old as humanity and that Plato and Hegel were its forerunners. However, he was not satisfied with it upon completion, writing, “No book can ever be finished.” In lesser-known texts like “Utopia and Violence,” written in the wake of World War II, he proposed that there was “something like victory in defeat.” Nazism produced even more violence than the decade that followed World War II. The foundations of civilization, which were fairly recent at the time, were deeply shaken by Nazism and became ever more fragile. No one, Popper claimed, could predict the long-term effects of this trauma. Hope is only to be found in reducing violence through reason. |
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