Popper (Fontana Modern Masters) Paperback – 5 Jun. 1985

It would be insulting to call Bryan Magee a populariser of philosophy, as he has written a magisterial and influential book on Schopenhauer, and he has an unparalleled ability to distill the essence of a philosopher’s work and interrogate him or her on it as he does in the books based on the famous BBC series. This introduction to Popper is amongst his best and one is not surprised to find that Popper himself contributed to, and endorsed it.

Magee's love of communicating philosophy knew no bounds.

Very readable: McGee on K. Popper - a 'must have', iMHO.

Completely satisfied.

A brilliant book - clear, engaging, and short!

An excellent read, giving a concise overview of the great man's work. A word of warning, however; this book is currently (December 2014) being published under the title of 'philosophy and the real world:an introduction to Karl Popper.' I have both, and they are identical.

Imagine my surprise to find page 14 blank. It deals with Poppers translations from the Greek, I presume... I'd like to read that page. The copy itself is pretty shoddy with quite small print but that wouldn't bother me if I had the complete text.

A brilliant presentation, concise and concentrated, of the thought of Karl Popper with its main complementary components: science, philosophy, epistemology and politics; all in application of his evolutionary rationalism, his theory of Knowledge.Bryan Magee shows very well the unity of methodology in Popper's works, upon what the author called critical rationalism in philosophy and epistemology, and "piecemeal social engineering" in politics. The great philosopher of sciences disapproved essentialism, determinism, and historicism, throughout all the matters the more important is the use of the good method, with a good conception of reason and science, so a logic of scientific discovery. It is a matter of scientific progress, of knowledge and culture in general, and of democracy (differing from utopias). Finally the reader is advised to turn to Popper's books.