„When I began to read your manuscript, I planned to confine the reading to those chapters which you had advised me to read and to glance through the rest of the book. But hardly had I begun to read it when I radically scratched this plan. So deeply was I moved by your writing, so excited was I and even thrilled that I devoured the entire book as it were in one gulp. It is hard to convey to you the deep impression your book has made on me and the gratitude with which I have received it... But what I owe to your book, is the epistemological insight in the errors and dangers of oracular philosophy and is, furthermore, the revelation of the untenability of historicism and of its fundamental immorality.“ Alfred Braunthal, New York, August 24, 1943, in a letter to Karl Popper. The letter is in the Popper-archives, Hoover Institution, Stanford University. Alfred Braunthal received the manuscript of The Open Society and Its Enemies, in order to try and find a publisher for the book in the USA. I found this quote in the book of Hubert Kiesewetter, Karl Popper – Leben und Werk. See the comment to find out how to order this beautiful (and cheap) book.
Posted on: Mon, 14 Jul 2014 09:39:05 +0000
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