The Poverty of Historicism
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The Poverty of Historicism is a philosophical work by Karl Popper that critiques the idea that history unfolds according to discoverable laws and argues against using such supposed laws to predict or control social development.
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| instanceOf |
book
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philosophical work → |
| advocates |
piecemeal social engineering
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| arguesAgainst |
deterministic views of history
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use of supposed historical laws to predict social development → |
| author |
Karl Popper
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Karl R. Popper → |
| bookPublicationYear |
1957
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| countryOfFirstPublication |
United Kingdom
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| criticizes |
belief in historical laws
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historicism → predictive theories of history → utopian social engineering → |
| firstPublishedIn |
Economica
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| genre |
philosophy
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philosophy of science → social philosophy → |
| hasNotableConcept |
impossibility of long‑term social prediction
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open society → piecemeal social engineering vs. utopian planning → |
| influenced |
methodology of economics
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philosophy of social science → political philosophy → |
| language |
English
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| mainTopic |
historicism
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methodology of the social sciences → philosophy of history → social planning → social prediction → |
| originalPublicationType |
journal articles
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| philosophicalTradition |
analytic philosophy
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critical rationalism → |
| publicationForm |
book
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| publicationPeriodAsArticles |
1944
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1945 → |
| publisher |
Routledge
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| relatedWork |
The Open Society and Its Enemies
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| subjectOf |
academic commentary in philosophy of science
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debates on social planning → discussions of historicism in political theory → |
| supports |
critical rationalism
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fallibilism in the social sciences → |
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Karl Popper
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