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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第一著者: Brudny, Michelle-Irène
フォーマット: Article ou chapitre numérique
言語:Français
出版事項: 2017
オンライン・アクセス:Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM
Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM
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要約: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.