The Poverty of Historicism (Paperback, Reissue)

The Poverty of Historicism is a devastating criticism of the belief in the laws of history, laws of social development, or laws or progress. It exposes pernicious and influential doctrines, and the ideologies erected on them. The book also contains a systematic and brief account of what the character and methods of the social sciences ought to be, and an indication of the kind of piecemeal political planning which these methods suggest.