Joseph Agassi: A PHILOSOPHER'S APPRENTICE. IN KARL POPPER'S WORKSHOP.
Amsterdam/Atlanta, GA 1993. 260 pp.

This book - the author calls it "a melancholic account" - is an intellectual autobiography of Joseph Agassi, which especially focusses on his relation to Karl R. Popper. Moreover it affords interesting insights into philosophical discussion within the Popper-circle in London as well as into relations among his students of that time (Imre Lakatos, William W. Bartley, Paul Feyerabend a.s.o.).

Pb: 978-90-5183-563-2 / 90-5183-563-9
€ 47 / US$ 71

Joseph Agassi: A PHILOSOPHER'S APPRENTICE. IN KARL POPPER'S WORKSHOP.

Revised, Extended and Annotated Edition

Amsterdam/New York, NY, 2008, 400 pp.

Both a Popper biography and an autobiography, Agassi's A Philosopher's Apprentice tells the riveting story of his intellectual formation in 1950s London, a young brilliant philosopher struggling with an intellectual giant - father, mentor, and rival, all at the same time. His subsequent rebellion and declaration of independence leads to a painful break, never to be completely healed. No other writer has Agassi's psychological insight into Popper, and no other book captures like this one the intellectual excitement around the Popper circle in the 1950s and the struggles of the 1960s and 1970s - personal, academic, political, all important philosophically. Agassi's Popper - whether one agrees with it or not - is an enormous contribution to scholarship. This second revised edition includes also Popper's and Agassi's last correspondence and, in a postscript it shows Agassi leafing through Popper's archives, reaching a sort of reconciliation, an appropriate ending to the drama. A must read.
Malachi Hacohen

Hb: 978-90-420-2434-2
€ 80 / US$ 108

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