Date: Mon, 19 Jul 2004 02:51:02 -0400
From: Ralph Dumain <rdumain-AT-igc.org>
Subject: [FRA:] Horkheimer vs Popper?


I'm not aware of the two ever having crossed paths intellectually, but my 
intensifying interactions with Popperians lately lead me to an 
interpretation of Popperianism as ideology even though certain aspects of 
Popper's ideals are abstractly appealing.  Except for Stalinist critiques 
of Popper, mostly of Popper's 'open society' hatchet job, I'm wondering if 
there are any other substantive Marxist critiques of Popper are out there.

In the meanwhile, I'm inspired by Horkheimer's view of specialization and 
traditional theory, because I suspect this characterizes the people I'm 
dealing with to a T.  See my quasi-essay:

Max Horkheimer's Materialism: The Struggle with Traditional Theory, 
Science, Positivism, & Irrationalism
http://www.autodidactproject.org/my/horksci.html