Philosopher's Apprentice

• AbstractTo the Second EditionAcknowledgementPrologueAppendix: Correspondence with Professor Sir Ernst GombrichChapter One: PreludeChapter Two: Entering Karl Popper’s Famous SeminarChapter Three: The Master’s ClassChapter Four: At the Feet of the Great ThinkerChapter Five: The Philosopher and His Friends and PeersChapter Six: The Philosopher and His WorkshopChapter Seven: The Open Society, Its Mentality and StyleChapter Eight: The Matter of Intellectual LeadershipChapter Nine: Epilogue: The Future of PhilosophyChapter Ten: PostscriptAppendicesAppendix One: Russell on “Logical” PositivismAppendix Two: Popper versus the “Vienna Circle” Appendix Three: Carnap and Reichenbach in RetrospectAppendix Four: The Picture “in Essentials” Appendix Five: The Heritage of “Vienna Circle” Appendix Six: Ordinary Language PhilosophyAppendix Seven: Nails on the Socratic ProblemAppendix Eight: Popper on XenophanesLettersBibliographyGlossaryIndex of NamesIndex of Subjects

"Both a Popper biography and an autobiography, Agassi's A Philosopher's Apprentice tells the riveting story of his intellectual formation in 1950s London, a young brilliant philosopher struggling with an intellectual giant - father, mentor, and rival, all at the same time. His subsequent rebellion and declaration of independence leads to a painful break, never to be completely healed. No other writer has Agassi's psychological insight into Popper, and no other book captures like this one the intellectual excitement around the Popper circle in the 1950s and the struggles of the 1960s and 1970s - personal, academic, political, all important philosophically. Agassi's Popper - whether one agrees with it or not - is an enormous contribution to scholarship. This second revised edition includes also Popper's and Agassi's last correspondence and, in a postscript it shows Agassi leafing through Popper's archives, reaching a sort of reconciliation, an appropriate ending to the drama. A must read." – Malachi Hacohen, Duke University