by Karl R. Popper · ALIANZA EDITORIAL, S.A. · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788420614779
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«La miseria del historicismo» is the essay by Karl R. Popper published by Alianza Editorial in paperback (181 pages, in Spanish).
The author criticizes historicism, a current that aims to predict the course of history through supposed laws or trends. Popper argues that such prediction lacks a scientific basis, because the future depends on the growth of human knowledge, and that trusting it amounts to falling into superstition.
Work originally published in English as "The Poverty of Historicism". The Spanish edition includes a translation by Pedro Schwartz. It belongs to the El Libro de Bolsillo collection, Humanities section, number 477.
Aimed at readers interested in the philosophy of history, social and political theory, and in the thought of one of the great critics of twentieth-century totalitarianism.
Sir Karl Raimund Popper was an Austrian–British philosopher, academic and social commentator. One of the 20th century's most influential philosophers of science, Popper is known for his rejection of the classical inductivist views on the scientific method in favour of empirical falsification made possible by his falsifiability criterion, and for founding the Department of Philosophy at the London School of Economics and Political Science. According to Popper, a theory in the empirical sciences can never be proven, but it can be falsified, meaning that it can be scrutinised with decisive experiments. Popper was opposed to the classical justificationist account of knowledge, which he replaced with "the first non-justificational philosophy of criticism in the history of philosophy", namely critical rationalism.
