Karl R. Popper Libri

“İyimserlik ahlakî bir görevdir.” 20. Yüzyıl’ın en etkileyici düşünürlerinden Karl Popper, sahip olduğumuz demokratik sistemi muhafaza etmede üzerimize düşen sorumlulukların farkında olmamız gerektiğini hatırlatıyor. Yarının dünyasını yaratacak olan şey bizim eylemlerimiz olacaktır. Gazeteci Giancarlo Bosetti’nin yaptığı bu söyleşilerde Popper geniş bir yelpazede çağdaş siyasal ve toplumsal meseleler üzerine konuşuyor. Sovyetler Birliği’nin çöküşünden üçüncü bir dünya savaşı tehlikesine, çocuklarımıza karşı yükümlülüklerimizden televizyonun potansiyel zararlı etkilerine kadar birçok konudan bahsediyor. Toplumumuzdaki yükselen şiddet ve bencilliğin, eğer önlem almazsak medeniyetimizi tehlikeye atacağı konusunda uyarıyor. Kitap aynı zamanda demokrasi teorisi üzerine iki konuşma da içeriyor; demokrasinin hiçbir zaman halkın yönetimi olmadığını (olamayacağını ve olmaması gerektiğini) ama tiranlığı önleyebilmek için elimizdeki en iyi yöntem olduğunu ikna edici bir şekilde savunuyor.

«Una democrazia non può esistere se non si mette sotto controllo la televisione, o più precisamente non può esistere a lungo fino a quando il potere della televisione non sarà pienamente scoperto» Karl R. Popper Un classico che ha avuto grande fortuna e ha suscitato un dibattito inesauribile e oggi più che mai attuale, in un'edizione arricchita da un saggio introduttivo di Giancarlo Bosetti e dai testi di John Condry, di Karol Wojtyla, di Raimondo Cubeddu e Jean Baudouin.

In this long-awaited volume, Jeremy Shearmur collects the most important writings Popper made in the years after The Open Society was first published. Many are published here for the first time.

Quantum Theory and the Schism in Physics 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.

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 the fundamental idea that guided his work: not only our knowledge, but our aims and our standards, grow through an unending process of trial and error.

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 the Nazi annexation of Austria the following year, and he settled in England in 1949. Before the annexation, Popper had written mainly about the philosophy of science, but from 1938 until the end of the Second World War he focused his energies on political philosophy, seeking to diagnose the intellectual origins of German and Soviet totalitarianism. The Open Society and Its Enemies was the result. In the book, Popper condemned Plato, Marx, and Hegel as "holists" and "historicists"--a holist, according to Popper, believes that individuals are formed entirely by their social groups; historicists believe that social groups evolve according to internal principles that it is the intellectual's task to uncover. Popper, by contrast, held that social affairs are unpredictable, and argued vehemently against social engineering. He also sought to shift the focus of political philosophy away from questions about who ought to rule toward questions about how to minimize the damage done by the powerful. The book was an immediate sensation, and--though it has long been criticized for its portrayals of Plato, Marx, and Hegel--it has remained a landmark on the left and right alike for its defense of freedom and the spirit of critical inquiry.

First published in 1945 and never out of print, this is the second volume of one of the most famous and influential works of the twentieth century.

Based upon the Kenan Lectures that Popper delivered in 1969, this volume raises problems connected with human freedom, creativity, rationality, and the relationship between human beings and their actions.