BOOK COVER -- HALF-TITLE -- TITLE -- COPYRIGHT -- CONTENTS -- FOREWORD TO THE ENGLISH EDITION -- ABBREVIATIONS OF POPPER'S WORKS -- A CHRONOLOGY OF POPPER'S LIFE -- Part I -- 1 THE LIFE -- Part II -- 2 THE EPISTEMOLOGICAL WORKS -- A LAYERED STRUCTURE -- THEORY OF KNOWLEDGE -- THE CRITIQUE OF POSITIVISM -- THE PROBLEM OF DEMARCATION -- THE PROBLEM OF INDUCTION -- INDUCTION AND PROBABILITY -- THE CHARACTERISTICS OF SCIENCE -- NATURAL SCIENCE AND SOCIAL SCIENCE -- 3 THE POLITICAL WORKS -- HISTORICISM AS A PHILOSOPHY OF HISTORY -- PLATO THE TOTALITARIAN -- THE DOGMATIC CHARACTER OF THE HEGELIAN DIALECTIC -- MARX AS FALSE PROPHET -- THE OPEN SOCIETY -- THE MEANING OF HISTORY -- 4 THE 'METAPHYSICAL' WORKS -- REALISM AS A METAPHYSICAL OPTION -- THE THREE WORLDS AND THEIR INTERACTION -- EMERGENT CONSCIOUSNESS -- EVOLUTIONARY EPISTEMOLOGY -- DETERMINISM AND INDETERMINISM -- Part III -- 5 THEMES AND MOTIFS -- SCIENCE AS A SEARCHLIGHT -- KANT AND POPPER -- THE ACTIVE MIND -- LIFE AS PROBLEM-SOLVING -- THE LAST OF THE ENLIGHTENMENT THINKERS -- THE ETHICS OF TOLERANCE -- 6 THE CRITICISM -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY OF WORKS BY POPPER -- CRITICAL LITERATURE -- Studies of the cultural context -- General studies of Popper's thought -- Studies of individual works -- Studies on epistemology and the theory of knowledge -- Studies on political philosophy and the human sciences -- Studies on particular themes -- Studies of Popper in relation to other authors -- NAME INDEX.