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

The open society and its enemies.

[Rev. ed.]

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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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Princeton University Press
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English
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732

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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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The Open Society and Its Enemies
1963, Princeton University Press
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1950, Princeton University Press
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Table of Contents

Preface
Page v
Preface to the Revised Edition
Page vii
Acknowledgements
Page ix
Introduction
Page 3
Part I. The Spell of Plato
The Myth of Origin and Destiny
Page 11
Historicism and the Myth of Destiny
Page 11
Heraclitus
Page 14
Plato's Theory of Forms or Ideas
Page 21
Plato's Descriptive Sociology
Page 37
Change and Rest
Page 37
Nature and Convention
Page 58
Plato's Political Program
Page 86
Totalitarian Justice
Page 86
The Principle of Leadership
Page 119
The Philosopher King
Page 136
Aestheticism, Perfectionism, Utopianism
Page 154
The Background of Plato's Attack
Page 165
The Open Society and Its Enemies
Page 165
Part II. The High Tide of Prophecy
The Rise of Oracular Philosophy
Page 199
The Aristotelian Roots of Hegelianism
Page 199
Hegel and The New Tribalism
Page 223
Marx's Method
Page 274
Marx's Sociological Determinism
Page 274
The Autonomy of Sociology
Page 282
Economic Historicism
Page 292
The Classes
Page 302
The Legal and The Social System
Page 308
Marx's Prophecy
Page 324
The Coming of Socialism
Page 324
The Social Revolution
Page 335
Capitalism and Its Fate
Page 354
An Evaluation of the Prophecy
Page 379
Marx's Ethics
Page 385
The Moral Theory of Historicism
Page 385
The Aftermath
Page 398
The Sociology of Knowledge
Page 398
Oracular Philosophy and the Revolt against Reason
Page 410
Conclusion
Page 443
Has History any Meaning?
Page 443
Notes
Page 465
Index
Page 727

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301
Library of Congress
B63 .P6 1950

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xii, 732 p.
Number of pages
732

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LCCN
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OCLC/WorldCat
425352

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