The Poverty of Historicism
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""Historicism" in this sense should be distinguished from Karl Popper's use of the term in The Poverty of Historicism and other works. With his usual lack of insight, Popper identifies historicism as the pretense of being able to predict the future from the historical past, by which account a philosopher like Plato who believes in the existence of an unchanging underlying human nature is as "historicist" as Hegel." --The End of History and the Last Man (1992) by Francis Fukuyama |
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The Poverty of Historicism (1944) is a book by twentieth century philosopher Karl Popper which seeks to persuade the reader of both the danger and the bankruptcy of the idea of historicism.
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