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An edition of The Open Society and Its Enemies (1+2) (1945)

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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Philosophy, Political science, Social sciences, Sociology, Sociologia, Social change, Political science, philosophy, Political culture, Liberty, Social sciences, philosophy, Long Now Manual for Civilization, Philosophie, Sciences sociales, Sociologie, Political, Historizismus, Politische Philosophie, Totalitarisme, Historisme, Sociale ideeën, Communism, Socialism

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Plato, Karl Marx (1818-1883), Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770-1831)

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Cover of: La sociedad abierta y sus enemigos
La sociedad abierta y sus enemigos
February 2006, Paidós Ibérica
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Cover of: Otvoreno društvo i njegovi neprijatelji
Otvoreno društvo i njegovi neprijatelji
1998, Pravni centar Fond otvoreno društvo Bosne i Hercegovine
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The Open Society and Its Enemies
1963-01-01, Harper
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The Open Society and Its Enemies
1963, Princeton University Press
in English - 4th ed. rev.

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