Karl Popper en het Wenen van zijn tijd. Intellectuele en politieke wortels van het kritisch rationalisme

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Karl Popper's Vienna. The Intellectual and Political Roots of Critical Rationalism. Karl Popper, who grew up in the intellectual atmosphere of the wealthy bourgeoisie of Vienna, Austria, was influenced by Albert Einsten's relativity theory as well as Marxism. However, after spurning militant communism in 1919, he joined the Austrian Monists and participated in the socialist school reform movement. Popper opposed modernism in general, and remained conservative in music and art, but Edward Hanslick's objectivist approach to music affected Popper's philosophy and led to his theory of the three worlds. Additionally, Popper's falsificationist methodology was influenced by the therapeutic nihilism once dominating the Vienna Medical School. As a student of the Gestalt psychologist Karl Buhler and a member of the Gomperz Circle, his opposition to logical positivism represented a successful articulation of contemporary criticism. In contrast to the empirical inductionists of the Vienna Circle, he opted for deductivist theory and philosophical realism of the Boltmann-Einstein School. Anticipating the Nazi takeover, he emigrated to New Zealand in 1937. From 1946 onward, he taught at the U of London (England), and died in England 17 Sept 1994. Although sociologists might choose other works, Popper is remembered primarily for his treatment of the growth of natural science knowledge described in The Logic of Scientific Discovery (1959). 35 References. Adapted from the source document.