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1. The Political Thought of Karl Popper

   By Jeremy Shearmur

   The Political Thought of Karl Popper offers a controversial treatment of Popper's ideas about politics, informed by Shearmur's personal knowledge of Popper together with research on unpublished material in the Popper archive at the Hoover Institute.While sympathetic to Popper's overall approach,...

   To Be Published August 15th 2014 by Routledge
2. The Lesson of this Century

   With Two Talks on Freedom and the Democratic State

   By Karl Popper

   In The Lesson of this Century Popper's purpose is to warn us against the increasing violence and egoism of our society. What solutions can we offer to the problems of the environment, demography and corruption? How can we prevent the violence our society engenders? How can we preserve our...

   To Be Published August 15th 2014 by Routledge
3. The World of Parmenides

   Essays on the Presocratic Enlightenment

   By Karl Sir 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 26th 2012 by Routledge
4. Karl Popper Bundle RC

   By Karl Sir Popper

   Series: Routledge Classics

   First published in 2011. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company....

   Published September 1st 2011 by Routledge
5. 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 26th 2011 by Routledge
6. 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   In this long-awaited volume, Jeremy Shearmur and Piers Norris Turner bring to light Popper's most important unpublished and uncollected writings from the time of The Open Society until his death in 1994.After The Open Society: Selected Social and Political Writings reveals the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 26th 2011 by Routledge
7. The Open Society and Its Enemies

   By Karl Sir 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 4th 2011 by Routledge
8. 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 3rd 2010 by Routledge
9. 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 23rd 2004 by Routledge
10. 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 27th 2003 by Routledge