Abstract

This edited volume on Karl Popper’s philosophy adds to the existing literature in the study and the research of the central ideas of critical rationalism. What makes this multi-authored volume unique is not only about how Popper’s ideas have been extensively discussed, but about how the ideas in Popper’s philosophy have been used as contextualisation to the issues and problems of knowledge, politics and development in Africa. This volume will do best as a literature on an advanced political philosophy course as well as a course on cross-cultural philosophy, especially in a comparative philosophy course on African and post-analytic philosophy. It would do best in a course which compares European and African philosophical perspectives. The various discussions in this volume centre on Popper’s systematic ideas on critical rationalism, emphasising on issues that bother not only on both his philosophy of science and political philosophy, but also on his philosophy of life, as they apply to the condition of developments in Africa.