Karl Poppers tänkande, såväl hans kunskapsteoretiska som hans politiska, emanerar på många sätt ur den egna erfarenheten. På flykt undan nazismen kom han större delen av sitt liv att leva och verka på Nya Zeeland och i England, och det är också i England som Det öppna samhället, under s[...]

Nr 34-35 av Arche - tidskrift för psykoanalys, humaniora och arkitektur (f d Psykoanalytisk Tid/Skrift) innehåller bland annat texter kring Michel Foucaults doktorsavhandling och första stora verk, Vansinne och oförnuft - Vansinnets historia under den klassiska epoken, som gavs ut 1961 efter att[...]

The Open Universe is one of the three volumes of Karl Popper's Postscript to the Logic of scientific Discovery. The Postscript is the culmination of Popper's work in the philosophy of physics and a new famous attack on subjectivist approaches to philosophy of science.[...]

In a career spanning sixty years, Sir Karl Popper has made some of the most important contributions to the twentieth century discussion of science and rationality. The Myth of the Framework is a new collection of some of Popper's most important material on this subject. Sir Karl discusses such issue[...]

Written in political exile in New Zealand during the World War II and first published in two volumes in 1945, Karl Popper's "The Open Society and Its Enemies" is considered by some to be one of the most important books of the 20th century. Volume 1.[...]

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 [...]

On its publication in 1957, The Poverty of Historicism was hailed by Arthur Koestler as 'probably the only book published this year which will outlive the century.' A devastating criticism of fixed and predictable laws in history, Popper dedicated the book to all those 'who fell victim to the fascis[...]

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 [...]

'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.' - Karl Popp[...]

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 Pop[...]

This biography of the founder of critical rationalism gives an insight into a complex and fascinating personality and into the making of one of the 20th century's most influential philosophical theories. As a modern representative of Enlightenment, Popper emphasized the role of criticism both in the[...]

Poppers personliga skildring av sin filosofiska och vetenskapliga utveckling. Vi får följa hans liv från Wienkretsen till professuren vid London School of Economics.

Biografin publicerades första gången i serien Library of Living Philosophers. I denna serie har 1900-talets mest känd[...]