The Open Society and Its Enemies
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Author
Publication
2013-04-21 - Princeton University Press
Word Count
202,000 words, Guess
Page Count
808 pages
Physical Format
Paperback
Identifiers
- ISBN-100691158134
- ISBN-139780691158136
- Library of Congress Control Number2012952689
- OCLC Control Number820118585
- Better World Books9780691158136
and 2 more
- Better World BooksO9-CEX-975
- Open LibraryOL27980214M
Classifications
- LCCB63 .P6 2013
- LCCJA71
- DDC301
and 1 more
- LCCB'63'P6'V.1
Description
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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