Date: Fri, 23 Jul 2004 11:43:07 +0300
From: "Rauno Huttunen" <rakahu-AT-yfi.jyu.fi>
Subject: Re: [FRA:] Re: Horkheimer vs Popper?


This is truly interesting. I did'n knoe this Zizek article. My source
was Finnish philosopher Juha Manninen who has studied the relationship
of Vienna Circle and Wittgenstein.

Rauno

>>> dvicker2-AT-maine.rr.com 07/21/04 6:45 PM >>>
Here it is in French:

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


----- Original Message -----
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.
>