- Philosophers, Biography, Philosophers, biography, Autobiography
At the age of eight, Karl Popper was puzzling over the idea of infinity and by fifteen was beginning to take a keen interest in his father's well-stocked library of books. Unended Quest recounts these moments and many others in the life of one of the most influential thinkers of the twentieth century, providing an indispensable account of the ideas that influenced him most.
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- Author
- Karl Popper
- First published
- 1976
- Pages
- 280
- Publisher
- Routledge, Magor, Fontana
- Editions
- 21
- Language
- Spanish, French, tur, English
- ISBN
- 9780087583436
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“When I was twenty I became apprenticed to an old master cabinetmaker in Vienna whose name was Adalbert Posch, and I worked with him from 1922 to 1924, not long after the First World War.”
**Sir Karl Raimund Popper** (28 July 1902 – 17 September 1994) was an Austrian-British philosopher, academic and social commentator.
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