Karl Popper’s Architectural Legacy: An Intertextual Reading Of Collage City

摘要

Karl Popper, the Austrian born British philosopher, was one of the most inspiring and controversial thinkers of the 20th century and also a disputed one as a Western cold-war ideologist. His major contribution was in the realm of philosophy of science, where he proposed falsification as a method to develop and test scientific knowledge as opposed to induction. Founding the Department of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method at London School of Economics (LSE) in 1946 and influencing many philosophers working on scientific knowledge and method, specifically Imre Lakatos and Paul Feyerabend, Karl Popper is regarded as one of the most influential philosophers of science in the 20th century (Horgan, 1992; Kiesewetter, 1995; Hacohen, 2002). On the other hand, Popper’s image is rather controversial in the realm of political philosophy. A supporter of Marxist ideology and a member of Social Democratic Workers’ Party of Austria in his youth, Popper later became one of the fiercest critics of the utopian aspects of Marxism. His defense of liberal democracy as a condition of open society has been considered by many scholars and critics as a foundation for conservative politics (Freeman, 1975; Parvin, 2013).