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The World of Parmenides
Essays on the Presocratic Enlightenment
Series: Routledge Classics
With a new foreword by Scott Austin 'I hope that these essays may illustrate the thesis that all history is or should be the history of problem situations, and that in following this principle we may further our understanding of the Presocratics and other thinkers of the past. The essays also try...
Published April 29th 2012 by Routledge
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The Two Fundamental Problems of the Theory of Knowledge
Series: Routledge Classics
In a letter of 1932, Karl Popper described Die beiden Grundprobleme der Erkenntnistheorie – The Two Fundamental Problems of the Theory of Knowledge – as ‘…a child of crises, above all of …the crisis of physics.’ Finally available in English, it is a major contribution to the philosophy of science,...
Published August 25th 2011 by Routledge
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After The Open Society
Selected Social and Political Writings
Series: Routledge Classics
In this long-awaited volume, Jeremy Shearmur and Piers Norris Turner bring to light Popper's most important unpublished and uncollected writings from the time of The Open Society until his death in 1994.After The Open Society: Selected Social and Political Writings reveals the development of...
Published August 25th 2011 by Routledge
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The Open Society and Its Enemies
Series: Routledge Classics
‘If in this book harsh words are spoken about some of the greatest among the intellectual leaders of mankind, my motive is not, I hope, to belittle them. It springs rather from my conviction that, if our civilization is to survive, we must break with the habit of deference to great men.’ -...
Published April 3rd 2011 by Routledge
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The Open Society and its Enemies
Hegel and Marx
Series: Routledge Classics
Written in political exile during the Second World War and first published in 1945, Karl Popper's The Open Society and Its Enemies is one of the most influential books of the twentieth century. Hailed by Bertrand Russell as a 'vigorous and profound defence of democracy', its now legendary attack on...
Published July 10th 2002 by Routledge
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The Open Society and its Enemies
The Spell of Plato
Series: Routledge Classics
Written in political exile during the Second World War and first published in 1945, Karl Popper's The Open Society and Its Enemies is one of the most influential books of the twentieth century. Hailed by Bertrand Russell as a 'vigorous and profound defence of democracy', its now legendary attack on...
Published July 10th 2002 by Routledge
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The Open Society and its Enemies
7th Edition
Written in political exile in New Zealand during the Second World War and published in two volumes in 1945, The Open Society and its Enemies was hailed by Bertrand Russell as a 'vigorous and profound defence of democracy'. This legendary attack on the philosophies of Plato, Hegel and Marx...
Published May 23rd 2002 by Routledge
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Unended Quest
An Intellectual Autobiography, 2nd Edition
Series: Routledge Classics
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...
Published May 8th 2002 by Routledge
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Conjectures and Refutations
The Growth of Scientific Knowledge, 2nd Edition
Series: Routledge Classics
Conjectures and Refutations is one of Karl Popper's most wide-ranging and popular works, notable not only for its acute insight into the way scientific knowledge grows, but also for applying those insights to politics and to history. It provides one of the clearest and most accessible statements of...
Published May 1st 2002 by Routledge
