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The philosopher who gave us the paradox of tolerance—and the one question he never dared ask himself.
Vienna, June 1919. A sixteen-year-old boy marches with the crowd that has an answer for everything. By afternoon, boys his age are lying dead in the street—and the men with the answers are already explaining why it had to happen. He walks home with the question that will shape his life: How would I know if I were wrong?
It carries him through a century: to a packed hall where Einstein tells a starving city that one measurement could destroy his life’s work. To a staircase where his gentlest teacher is shot. To a Cambridge room where Wittgenstein picks up a poker. And to Berkeley, 1965, where his most brilliant student finds the two words that will make him famous and end their friendship: anything goes.
He becomes Karl Popper, the man who taught the free world how to defend itself. But the question was never only for other people. In the silence of a widower’s house, he finally turns it on himself—and on the marriage that paid for his certainties.
Based on true events, The Man Who Could Be Wrong is a novel for an age in which the debate is always over, doubt is treason, and everyone already knows. It is about certainty, and what it costs. And about the one voice a free society cannot afford to lose: the one that keeps asking.
For readers of When We Cease to Understand the World and Measuring the World.
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Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. Karl Popper changed the way we think about science, truth, and freedom. But his philosophy began with blood in a Vienna street.Vienna, 1919. Sixteen-year-old Karl Popper marches with young revolutionaries who believe they understand the laws of history. By afternoon, boys his age are lying dead in the street-and the men who sent them there are already explaining why their deaths were necessary.Popper walks home with a question that will haunt him for the rest of his life: How would I know if I were wrong?That question will help shape one of the twentieth century's most influential thinkers-the philosopher of falsifiability, The Open Society and Its Enemies, and the paradox of tolerance.It will carry him from the intellectual ferment of Vienna to exile in New Zealand and the great philosophical battles of postwar Europe. He watches Albert Einstein stake his theory on observations that might prove him wrong. He confronts the certainty of the Vienna Circle. In Cambridge, Ludwig Wittgenstein reaches for a fireplace poker. At the London School of Economics, Popper attracts a generation of brilliant disciples-including Paul Feyerabend and Imre Lakatos-who will eventually turn his own philosophy of criticism against him.Because there is one problem Popper never fully solves.He demands that every theory remain open to challenge. Every authority must be questioned. Every certainty must risk being wrong.But what happens when the authority is Karl Popper himself?Behind the public philosopher is Hennie Popper, his wife, first reader, fiercest private critic, and companion through more than half a century of exile, work, argument, and ambition. Only after her death does the question that shaped Popper's philosophy become painfully personal.How would I know if I were wrong?Based on the life, ideas, and documented events surrounding Karl Popper, The Man Who Could Be Wrong is a literary biographical novel about the birth of modern scientific skepticism, the defense of the open society, and the dangerous human hunger for certainty.It is also the story of a man who spent his life teaching the world how to question-and discovered that the hardest person to question is yourself.For readers of Benjamin Labatut's When We Cease to Understand the World and Daniel Kehlmann's Measuring the World. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. Nº de ref. del artículo: 9798173181565
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Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - How would you know if you were wrong Vienna, June 1919. A sixteen-year-old boy marches with the crowd that has an answer for everything. By afternoon, boys his age lie dead on the street-and the men with the answers are already explaining why it had to happen. He walks home with one question that will never let him go. It takes him to a packed concert hall where Einstein tells a starving city that a single measurement could destroy his life's work. To a burning courthouse and eighty-nine dead. To a university staircase where a gentle philosopher is shot by his own former student. To the far end of the earth, where an exile writes the book that gives the twentieth century a name for what it is fighting for: the open society. To a Cambridge room where Wittgenstein picks up a poker. And to Berkeley, where his most brilliant student stands at a window above the Free Speech Movement and finds the two words that will make him famous and end their friendship: anything goes. But the question was never only for other people. In the silence of a widower's house, the man who taught the world to doubt finally turns it on himself-and on the wife who paid for his certainties. A novel about Karl Popper-the philosopher who gave us the paradox of tolerance and the science of being proven wrong-written for an age in which the debate is always over, doubt is treason, and everyone already knows. In these pages he is never named. His first name is spoken once in the whole book, by the woman who loves him. It is about certainty, and what it costs. And about the one voice a free society cannot afford to lose: the one that keeps asking. For readers of Benjamín Labatut's When We Cease to Understand the World, Daniel Kehlmann's Measuring the World, and Irvin D. Yalom's When Nietzsche Wept. Nº de ref. del artículo: 9798173181565
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Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. Karl Popper changed the way we think about science, truth, and freedom. But his philosophy began with blood in a Vienna street.Vienna, 1919. Sixteen-year-old Karl Popper marches with young revolutionaries who believe they understand the laws of history. By afternoon, boys his age are lying dead in the street-and the men who sent them there are already explaining why their deaths were necessary.Popper walks home with a question that will haunt him for the rest of his life: How would I know if I were wrong?That question will help shape one of the twentieth century's most influential thinkers-the philosopher of falsifiability, The Open Society and Its Enemies, and the paradox of tolerance.It will carry him from the intellectual ferment of Vienna to exile in New Zealand and the great philosophical battles of postwar Europe. He watches Albert Einstein stake his theory on observations that might prove him wrong. He confronts the certainty of the Vienna Circle. In Cambridge, Ludwig Wittgenstein reaches for a fireplace poker. At the London School of Economics, Popper attracts a generation of brilliant disciples-including Paul Feyerabend and Imre Lakatos-who will eventually turn his own philosophy of criticism against him.Because there is one problem Popper never fully solves.He demands that every theory remain open to challenge. Every authority must be questioned. Every certainty must risk being wrong.But what happens when the authority is Karl Popper himself?Behind the public philosopher is Hennie Popper, his wife, first reader, fiercest private critic, and companion through more than half a century of exile, work, argument, and ambition. Only after her death does the question that shaped Popper's philosophy become painfully personal.How would I know if I were wrong?Based on the life, ideas, and documented events surrounding Karl Popper, The Man Who Could Be Wrong is a literary biographical novel about the birth of modern scientific skepticism, the defense of the open society, and the dangerous human hunger for certainty.It is also the story of a man who spent his life teaching the world how to question-and discovered that the hardest person to question is yourself.For readers of Benjamin Labatut's When We Cease to Understand the World and Daniel Kehlmann's Measuring the World. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability. Nº de ref. del artículo: 9798173181565
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