Kaufmann on Popper

Gratton with a HILARIOUS SELECTION OF POPPER’S WORST HISTORICAL READINGS as discussed by WALTER KAUFMANN.

Don’t forget, I started this exchange by saying that Popper’s always a bit more interesting than I expect him to be. But true enough, Kaufmann comes up with some awful examples.

Another classic diatribe against Popper can be found in Paul Feyerabend’s Farewell to Reason.

Gratton is also right that Kaufmann played an important role in continental philosophy in the U.S. He was the academic hero of every young Nietzschean, and perhaps even the first scholar many of them ever read.