The Open Society and Its Enemies (New One-Volume Edition)
Format: ebook
ISBN:
9781400846672 (1400846676)
Publish date: April 21st 2013
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Pages no: 824
Edition language: English
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...
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...