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by Karl Popper
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Edward
Edward rated it 10 years ago
ForewordPreface: 'Karl Popper's The Open Society and Its Enemies in the Contemporary Global World', by Václav Havel'Personal Recollections of the Publication of The Open Society', by E. H. GombrichAcknowledgementsPreface to the First EditionPreface to the Second EditionIntroduction--The Open Society...
shell pebble
shell pebble rated it 11 years ago
Popper mounts many-faceted defence of liberal democracy and its underpinnings against what he sees as attacks on it by Plato/Aristotle (essentialist, authoritarian) and Marx/Engels (historicist). These great tidy, totalising theories of society stand against the messy muddling through of democracy.I...
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