If in this book harsh words are spoken about some of the greatest among the intellectual leaders of mankind, my motive is not, I hope, to belittle them. It springs rather from my conviction that, if our civilization is to survive, we must break with the habit of deference to great men. Karl Popper, from the PrefaceWritten in political exile during the Second World War and first published in two volumes in 1945, Karl Popper The Open Society and Its Enemies is one of the most influential books ...

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.

Hailed on publication in 1957 as 'probably the only book published this year that will outlive the century', this is a devastating criticism of the idea that there are fixed laws in history and that human beings are able to predict them.

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

Karl Popper described Die Beiden Grundrpobleme der Erkenntnistheorie.