The Open Society and Its Enemies

Hegel and Marx (Routledge Classics)

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The Open Society and Its Enemies

Hegel and Marx (Routledge Classics)

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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: La sociedad abierta y sus enemigos
La sociedad abierta y sus enemigos
February 2006, Paidós Ibérica
Paperback in Spanish - Tra edition
Cover of: The Open Society and Its Enemies
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
1963, Princeton University Press
in English - 4th ed. rev.

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"It is widely believed that a truly scientific or philosophical attitude towards politics, and a deeper understanding of social life in general, must be based upon a contemplation and interpretation of human history."

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