Unended Quest: An Intellectual Autobiography, Paperback - Karl Popper

DescriptionAt 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 fath...

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Reducere. These excerpts from the writings of Sir Karl Popper are an outstanding introduction to one of the most controversial of living philosophers, known ...

Reducere. Philosophy and the Real World: An Introduction to Karl Popper, Paperback

DescriptionOn its publication in 1957, The Poverty of Historicism was hailed by Arthur Koestler as 'probably the only book published this year whic...

Described by the philosopher A.J. Ayer as a work of 'great originality and power', this book revolutionized contemporary thinking on science and kn...

Lectia secolului trecut - Karl R. Popper

A selection of Popper's writings on his main preoccupations towards the end of his life. Illuminates his process of working on his theory of scienc...

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 scient...

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The Open Universe is the centrepiece of the argument of the Postscript. Popper argues in simple language for the freedom, creativity and rationalit...

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 mo...

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In a letter of 1932, Karl Popper described Die beiden Grundprobleme der Erkenntnistheorie – The Two Fundamental Problems of the Theory of Knowledge...

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Publisher: C Hurst & Co Publishers LtdAuthor(s): Stephen ChanNumber of pages: 240Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 141 x 214 x 25Cover type: Paperb...

Reducere. „Autorul surprinde caracterul problematic al modelului antropologic și epistemologic de factura monista, materialista, care, prin reducerea omului ...

This intellectual 2001 biography recovers the legacy of Karl Popper (1902-1945); the progressive, cosmopolitan, Viennese socialist who combated fas...

Publisher: Taylor & Francis LtdAuthor(s): Karl Sir PopperIllustration(s): 18 Line drawings, black and whiteNumber of pages: 300Collection: Routledg...

„Autorul surprinde caracterul problematic al modelului antropologic si epistemologic de factura monista, materialista, care, prin reducerea omului ...

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 I...

Critiques ways of approaching Indigenous texts that are informed by the Western academic tradition and offers instead a new way of theorizing Indig...

Reducere. Popper was born in 1902 to a Viennese family of Jewish origin. He taught in Austria until 1937, when he emigrated to New Zealand in anticipation of...

Intellectuals since the Industrial Revolution have been obsessed with whether, when, and why capitalism will collapse. This riveting account of two...

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Reducere. Robert Crumb (b. 1943) read widely and deeply a long roster of authors including Robert Louis Stevenson, Charles Dickens, J. D. Salinger, Jack Kero...

Reducere. The life and work of Sigmund Freud continue to fascinate general and professional readers alike. Joel Whitebook here presents the first major biogr...

The companion guide to the hysterical television show of the same name, in which Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant force their arrestingly simple ...

Margaret Sanger - An Autobiography is a memoir written by famous American birth control activist with a goal to promote her main cause - the fight ...

Reducere. No Arab historical figure is more demonized than the Egyptian literati-turned-Islamist Sayyid Qutb. A poet and literary critic in his youth, Qutb i...

Georges Bataille (1897-1962) was a philosopher, writer and literary critic who had an enormous impact on the thinking of Foucault, Derrida and Baud...

An accelerated introduction into the life and work of the first female Nobel Laureate for Economics, Elinor Ostrom.

Reducere. Written towards the end of 1937 during his Europe trip, after being nominated the President of the Indian National Congress, An Indian Pilgrim trac...

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Reducere. An engrossing account of the remarkable twentieth-century philosopher-sociologist who has been called the Catholic Nietzsche. John Raphael Staude e...

Half a century after his shocking samurai-style suicide, Yukio Mishima (1925-1970) remains a deeply controversial figure. Though his writings and l...

"Plastic is powerful and moving, a deep, personal exploration of the modern world."--Richard Rhodes, Pulitzer Prize recipient for The Making of the...

Vladimir Ilyich Lenin is among the most enigmatic and influential figures of the twentieth century. While his life and work are crucial to any unde...

Reducere. The writings of Carl Schmitt form what is arguably the most disconcerting, original, and yet still unfamiliar body of twentieth-century political t...

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Reducere. A secret history of philosophy grafting theory onto science, combining art and storytelling to bring Western thought back to its roots.

DescriptionWhen Mustafa Kemal Atat rk became the first president of Turkey in 1923, he set about transforming his country into a secular republic w...