This e-book - the writer calls it "a melancholic account" - is an highbrow autobiography of Joseph Agassi, which specifically focusses on his relation to Karl R. Popper. additionally it gives fascinating insights into philosophical dialogue in the Popper-circle in London in addition to into family between his scholars of that point (Imre Lakatos, William W. Bartley, Paul Feyerabend a.s.o.)
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