In Search of a Better World: Lectures and Essays from Thirty Years

by Karl Popper

Book Overview

'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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 113817498X
• ISBN13: 9781138174986
• Release Date: August 2016
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.98 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"