| All Life Is Problem Solving Contributor(s): Popper, Karl (Author) |
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ISBN: 0415174864 ISBN-13: 9780415174862 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $190.00 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: June 1999 Annotation: All Life is Problem Solving provides a provocative selection of Sir Karl Popper's writings on his main preoccupations during the last twenty-five years of his life. The book consists of fifteen pieces -- lectures, seminar contributions, radio broadcasts and magazine articles -- spanning the years 1958 to 1993, and never published in English before. The collection elucidates Popper's interest in the origins of Germanic language and culture, illuminates his process of working out key formulations in his theory of science and indicates his view of the state of the world at the end of the Cold War and the collapse of communism. This volume of Popper's work presents important statements of not only his philosophical beliefs, but his views of the modern world. |
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| BISAC Categories: - Philosophy | History & Surveys - Modern - Science | Philosophy & Social Aspects - Philosophy | Political |
| Dewey: 192 |
| LCCN: 98-46132 |
| Physical Information: 0.75" H x 5.72" W x 8.8" (0.85 lbs) 184 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 20th Century |
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| Publisher Description: 'Never before has there been so many and such dreadful weapons in so many irresponsible hands.' - Karl Popper, from the Preface All Life is Problem Solving is a stimulating and provocative selection of Popper's writings on his main preoccupations during the last twenty-five years of his life. This collection illuminates Popper's process of working out key formulations in his theory of science, and indicates his view of the state of the world at the end of the Cold War and after the collapse of communism. |