| In Search of a Better World: Lectures and Essays from Thirty Years Revised Edition Contributor(s): Popper, Karl (Author) |
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ISBN: 0415135486 ISBN-13: 9780415135481 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $49.39 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: November 1995 Annotation: In the course of a life of ninety years Sir Karl can look back on positive changes in the world - the vast reductions in mass poverty, the liberalization of penal systems, the defeat of dictatorships. The search for a better world is never complete, but in spite of two world wars and a long and dangerous cold war, it was not in vain. The essays and lectures collected in this book chart many familiar as well as some less known aspects of Sir Karl's thinking - from his interest in the birth of scientific speculation in classical Greece to the destructive effects on the intellect of totalitarianism in twentieth-century states. His discussions range over problems of politics, the history of philosophy and great figures of the Enlightenment such as Voltaire and Kant, and the relation of science and art (in an address given at the 1979 Salzburg festival). The book offers important new insights into the thought of one of the greatest of living philosophers, and into the role of science in our civilization. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Philosophy | Mind & Body |
| Dewey: 192 |
| Series: Lectures and Essays from Thirty Years |
| Physical Information: 0.73" H x 5.42" W x 8.43" (0.70 lbs) 256 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 'I want to begin by declaring that I regard scientific knowledge as the most important kind of knowledge we have', writes Sir Karl Popper in the opening essay of this book, which collects his meditations on the real improvements science has wrought in society, in politics and in the arts in the course of the twentieth century. His subjects range from the beginnings of scientific speculation in classical Greece to the destructive effects of twentieth century totalitarianism, from major figures of the Enlightenment such as Kant and Voltaire to the role of science and self-criticism in the arts. The essays offer striking new insights into the mind of one of the greatest twentieth century philosophers. |