This collection of essays 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. Karl Popper was one of the most influential thinkers of our time. It is one of those treasure troves of great ideas that challenge the idealist presuppositions of the received tradition.
Popper is famous reformulating the grounds for empiricism.
Beyond offering a rationalization for scientific practice, he also related science to democratic social systems. He was repulsed by the development of totalitarian systems. He favored pragmatic systems in which ideology could be challenged by his method. The Open Society and Its Enemies is a work that is one of the most learned and systematic attacks on ideological systems which has been written in the last hundred years. It is definitely one of those works that will inspire and provoke one to think newly about Society and science, democracy and history.