Open Society and Its Enemies

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Open Society and Its Enemies
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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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Cover of: Open Society and Its Enemies
Open Society and Its Enemies
2012, Taylor & Francis Group
in English
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
in Croatian
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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OL33617176M
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9781136749773

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