From: "D. Vickrey" <dvicker2-AT-maine.rr.com>
Subject: Re: [FRA:] Re: Horkheimer vs Popper?
Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2004 10:45:17 -0500


Here it is in French:

http://perso.wanadoo.fr/denis.collin/lenine.htm


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From: "Ralph Dumain" <rdumain-AT-igc.org>
To: <frankfurt-school-AT-lists.village.Virginia.EDU>
Sent: Wednesday, July 21, 2004 9:21 AM
Subject: [FRA:] Re: Horkheimer vs Popper?


> I'm told that Slavoj Zizek wrote the following:
>
> >  In his short article "Lenin and Popper,"
> >Colletti recalls how, in a private letter from 1970, first published in
> >Die Zeit, Popper effectively wrote: "Lenin's book on empiriocriticism is,
> >in my opinion, truly excellent."
>
> Do you know where I can find this article by Colletti?
>
> At 11:48 AM 7/21/2004 +0300, Rauno Huttunen wrote:
> >Jep. Popper strongly opposed Vienna Circle's positivism. According to
> >Popper himself, he was the one who ended the original positivism. But
> >Popper understand posotivism as the philosophy of science which rely on
> >the so called justification thesis. Horkheimer's concept of traditional
> >theory is much broader than the justification thesis. I think Horkheimer
> >means with the traditional theory natural scientific attitude which
> >totally reject the aspect of sociology of knowledge. Horkheimer's
> >critisism of traditional theory is very much alike Kuhn critisism of
> >Popper.
> >
> >Rauno
> >
> > >>> rdumain-AT-igc.org 07/20 8:13  >>>
> >.....  This is the
> >first time I've seen Lenin connected to Popper.
>