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1. The World of Parmenides

   Essays on the Presocratic Enlightenment

   By Karl Popper

   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
2. Karl Popper Bundle RC

   By Karl Popper

   Series: Routledge Classics

   Published August 31st 2011 by Routledge
3. The Two Fundamental Problems of the Theory of Knowledge

   By Karl Popper

   Edited by Troels Eggers Hansen

   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
4. After The Open Society

   Selected Social and Political Writings

   By Karl Popper

   Edited by Piers Norris Turner, Jeremy Shearmur

   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   In this long-awaited volume, Jeremy Shearmur and Piers Norris Turner bring to light Popper's most important unpublished and uncollected writings from the time of The Open Society until his death in 1994.After The Open Society: Selected Social and Political Writings reveals the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
5. The Open Society and Its Enemies

   By Karl Popper

   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
6. Karl Popper's Philosophy of Science

   Rationality without Foundations

   By Stefano Gattei

   Series: Routledge Studies in the Philosophy of Science

   This book seeks to rectify misrepresentations of Popperian thought with a historical approach to Popper’s philosophy, an approach which applies his own mature view, that we gain knowledge through conjectures and refutations, to his own development, by portraying him in his intellectual growth as...

   Published November 2nd 2010 by Routledge
7. Karl Popper

   Critical Appraisals

   Edited by Philip Catton, Graham MacDonald

   One of the most original thinkers of the century, Karl Popper has inspired generations of philosophers, historians, and politicians. This collection of papers, specially written for this volume, offers fresh philosophical examination of key themes in Popper's philosophy, including philosophy of...

   Published September 22nd 2004 by Routledge
8. Karl Popper

   Edited by Professor Anthony O'Hear, Anthony O'Hear

   Series: Critical Assessments of Leading Philosophers

   Born in Austria, Karl Popper (1902-1994) was one of the dominant philosophical thinkers of the 20th century. A ground-breaking thinker, he saw the essence of true science as being the readiness to submit theories to severe testing and to reject them when refuted by test. His first major book in...

   Published November 26th 2003 by Routledge
9. The Open Society and its Enemies

   Hegel and Marx

   By Karl Popper

   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
10. The Open Society and its Enemies

    The Spell of Plato

    By Karl Popper

    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