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The open society and its enemies

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An open society provides its citizens with a mechanism for changing government; a closed society doesn't, forcing its citizens to rely on extra-legal revolution. Popper analyzes the open-closed society debate using three exemplars of closed-society advocacy: Plato, Hegel (and wow, does Popper hate on Hegel), and Marx. The main analytical viewpoints are historicist (backward-looking, utopian) motivations for closed societies and rational (forward-looking, empirical) motivations for open societies.

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Routledge
Language
English
Pages
784

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Cover of: La sociedad abierta y sus enemigos
La sociedad abierta y sus enemigos
February 2006, Paidós Ibérica
Paperback in Spanish - Tra edition
Cover of: Otvoreno društvo i njegovi neprijatelji
Otvoreno društvo i njegovi neprijatelji
1998, Pravni centar Fond otvoreno društvo Bosne i Hercegovine
Cover of: The open society and its enemies
The open society and its enemies
1995, Routledge
in English - Golden jubilee ed.
Cover of: The Open Society and Its Enemies
The Open Society and Its Enemies
1963, Princeton University Press
in English - 4th ed. rev.

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London

Table of Contents

v. 1. The spell of Plato.
v. 2. The high tide of prophecy: Hegel, Marx, and the aftermath.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references.

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Dewey Decimal Class
301
Library of Congress
B63 .P6 1963

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Pagination
2 v. in 1
Number of pages
784

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL21550183M
ISBN 10
0415127394
Library Thing
74404

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