POPPER, Karl.

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In Search of a Better World: Lectures and Essays from Thirty Years. First edition, presentation copy, inscribed on the front free endpaper to Popper's friend, the philosophical broadcaster Bryan Magee, "For Bryan from Karl, 12-8-94". This copy is among the last books inscribed by Popper, who died five weeks later. By the 1990s, Popper and Magee (1930-2019) had spent over two decades as friends and close intellectual allies. In 1973 Magee wrote a laudatory book-length study of Popper's thought: his first such work and one of the earliest such studies of Popper. In 1998, reflecting on their long association, he wrote that Popper was "the foremost philosopher of the age" (Confessions, p. 246). In Search of a Better World collects 16 essays from across Popper's career: two, Against Big Words and Creative Self-Criticism in Science and in Art, appear to be published here for the first time.

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