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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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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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"This book raises issues which may not be apparent from the table of contents."

Table of Contents

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{'level': 0, 'label': '', 'pagenum': 'vii', 'title': 'Preface to the Revised Edition'}
{'level': 0, 'label': '', 'pagenum': 'ix', 'title': 'Acknowledgements'}
{'level': 0, 'label': '', 'pagenum': '3', 'title': 'Introduction'}
{'level': 0, 'label': '', 'pagenum': '', 'title': 'Part I. The Spell of Plato'}
{'level': 0, 'label': '', 'pagenum': '11', 'title': 'The Myth of Origin and Destiny'}
{'level': 0, 'label': '1', 'pagenum': '11', 'title': 'Historicism and the Myth of Destiny'}
{'level': 0, 'label': '2', 'pagenum': '14', 'title': 'Heraclitus'}
{'level': 0, 'label': '3', 'pagenum': '21', 'title': "Plato's Theory of Forms or Ideas"}
{'level': 0, 'label': '', 'pagenum': '37', 'title': "Plato's Descriptive Sociology"}
{'level': 0, 'label': '4', 'pagenum': '37', 'title': 'Change and Rest'}
{'level': 0, 'label': '5', 'pagenum': '58', 'title': 'Nature and Convention'}
{'level': 0, 'label': '', 'pagenum': '86', 'title': "Plato's Political Program"}
{'level': 0, 'label': '6', 'pagenum': '86', 'title': 'Totalitarian Justice'}
{'level': 0, 'label': '7', 'pagenum': '119', 'title': 'The Principle of Leadership'}
{'level': 0, 'label': '8', 'pagenum': '136', 'title': 'The Philosopher King'}
{'level': 0, 'label': '9', 'pagenum': '154', 'title': 'Aestheticism, Perfectionism, Utopianism'}
{'level': 0, 'label': '', 'pagenum': '165', 'title': "The Background of Plato's Attack"}
{'level': 0, 'label': '10', 'pagenum': '165', 'title': 'The Open Society and Its Enemies'}
{'level': 0, 'label': '', 'pagenum': '', 'title': 'Part II. The High Tide of Prophecy'}
{'level': 0, 'label': '', 'pagenum': '199', 'title': 'The Rise of Oracular Philosophy'}
{'level': 0, 'label': '11', 'pagenum': '199', 'title': 'The Aristotelian Roots of Hegelianism'}
{'level': 0, 'label': '12', 'pagenum': '223', 'title': 'Hegel and The New Tribalism'}
{'level': 0, 'label': '', 'pagenum': '274', 'title': "Marx's Method"}
{'level': 0, 'label': '13', 'pagenum': '274', 'title': "Marx's Sociological Determinism"}
{'level': 0, 'label': '14', 'pagenum': '282', 'title': 'The Autonomy of Sociology'}
{'level': 0, 'label': '15', 'pagenum': '292', 'title': 'Economic Historicism'}
{'level': 0, 'label': '16', 'pagenum': '302', 'title': 'The Classes'}
{'level': 0, 'label': '17', 'pagenum': '308', 'title': 'The Legal and The Social System'}
{'level': 0, 'label': '', 'pagenum': '324', 'title': "Marx's Prophecy"}
{'level': 0, 'label': '18', 'pagenum': '324', 'title': 'The Coming of Socialism'}
{'level': 0, 'label': '19', 'pagenum': '335', 'title': 'The Social Revolution'}
{'level': 0, 'label': '20', 'pagenum': '354', 'title': 'Capitalism and Its Fate'}
{'level': 0, 'label': '21', 'pagenum': '379', 'title': 'An Evaluation of the Prophecy'}
{'level': 0, 'label': '', 'pagenum': '385', 'title': "Marx's Ethics"}
{'level': 0, 'label': '22', 'pagenum': '385', 'title': 'The Moral Theory of Historicism'}
{'level': 0, 'label': '', 'pagenum': '398', 'title': 'The Aftermath'}
{'level': 0, 'label': '23', 'pagenum': '398', 'title': 'The Sociology of Knowledge'}
{'level': 0, 'label': '24', 'pagenum': '410', 'title': 'Oracular Philosophy and the Revolt against Reason'}
{'level': 0, 'label': '', 'pagenum': '443', 'title': 'Conclusion'}
{'level': 0, 'label': '25', 'pagenum': '443', 'title': 'Has History any Meaning?'}
{'level': 0, 'label': '', 'pagenum': '465', 'title': 'Notes'}
{'level': 0, 'label': '', 'pagenum': '727', 'title': 'Index'}

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301
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B63 .P6 1950

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xii, 732 p.
Number of pages
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