''Unended Quest: An Intellectual Autobiography'' is a 1976 book by the philosopher
Karl Popper
Sir Karl Raimund Popper (28 July 1902 – 17 September 1994) was an Austrian–British philosopher, academic and social commentator. One of the 20th century's most influential philosophers of science, Popper is known for his rejection of the ...
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[Karl Popper ( 9762002). ''Unended Quest: An Intellectual Autobiography'']
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London and New York: Routledge
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. Popper writes that he became a disciple of
Socrates and learned more about the
theory of knowledge, including how little he knew, from his 'omniscient master' 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.
[Karl R. Popper ( 9762002). ''Unended Quest: An Intellectual Autobiography''.]
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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.
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References
* Karl R. Popper (1976
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* _____, (1994). ''
The Myth of the Framework: In Defence of Science and Rationality''.
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John Watkins (1997). "Karl Raimund Popper, 1902-1994," ''Proceedings of the British Academy'', 94, pp
645-85 which makes heavy use of ''Unended Quest'' besides many other sources.
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Bryan Magee (1973). ''Popper''
Contents Psychology Press. A popular account.
* John Vernon (2011)
A blog that suggests by examples how Popper's major ideas can readily be understood through the book.
1976 non-fiction books
American non-fiction books
Analytic philosophy literature
German autobiographies
Books about liberalism
Books by Karl Popper
English-language non-fiction books
Philosophy of science literature
Political philosophy literature
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