Unended Quest
Subtitle: An Intellectual Autobiography
Edition: Revised edition
Publisher: Open Court Publishing Company
Published: April 1982
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 258
ISBN-13: 9780875483665
Subjects: Philosophy Of Science; Biography & Autobiography; Philosophy; Biography/Autobiography; Biography: general; Modern Western philosophy, c 1600 to the present; General
First sentence: When I was twenty I became apprenticed to an old master cabinetmaker in Vienna whose name was Adalbert Posch, and I worked with him from 1922 to 1924, not long after the First World War.
Description: At the age of eight, Karl Popper was puzzling over the idea of infinity and by fifteen was beginning to take a keen interest in his father's well-stocked library of books. Unended Quest recounts these moments and many others in the life of one of the most influential thinkers of the twentieth century, providing an indispensable account of the ideas that influenced him most. As an introduction to Popper's philosophy, Unended Quest also shines. Popper lucidly explains the central ideas in his work, making this book ideal for anyone coming to Popper's life and work for the first time.