A devastating criticism of fixed and predictable laws in history, Popper dedicated the book to all those 'who fell victim to the fascist and communist belief in Inexorable Laws of Historical Destiny.' Short and beautifully written, it has inspired generations of readers, intellectuals and policy makers. One of the most important books on the social sciences since the Second World War, it is a searing insight into the ideas of this great thinker.
Now, the Milesian School aside, in The Poverty of Historicism, Karl Popper meticulously puts forward a bunch of arguments for why neither of the two is the right thing to do with respect to historical judgements of this sort. Well, maybe not of this ...
In our own this change still more rapid time we even found not only predicted the desire for change but also through the concentrated mass plan to control the desire. The holistic point of view I in the poverty of Historicism in criticized.
