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Online-Ressource (1372 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
ISBN:
9780415610216
Series Statement:
Routledge Classics
Content:
'If in this book harsh words are spoken about some of the greatest among the intellectual leaders of mankind, my motive is not, I hope, to belittle them. It springs rather from my conviction that, if our civilization is to survive, we must break with the habit of deference to great men.'- Karl Popper, from the PrefaceWritten in political exile during the Second World War and first published in two volumes in 1945, Karl Popper's The Open Society and Its Enemies is one of the most influential books of all time. Hailed by Bertrand Russell as a 'vigorous and profound defence of democracy', its no
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Description based upon print version of record
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Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; FOREWORD; PREFACE: 'KARL POPPER'S THE OPEN SOCIETY AND ITS ENEMIES IN THE CONTEMPORARY GLOBAL WORLD'; 'PERSONAL RECOLLECTIONS OF THE PUBLICATION OF THE OPEN SOCIETY'; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION; PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION; INTRODUCTION; VOLUME I: THE SPELL OF PLATO; The Myth of Origin and Destiny; 1 Historicism and the Myth of Destiny; 2 Heraclitus; 3 Plato's Theory of Forms or Ideas; Plato's Descriptive Sociology; 4 Change and Rest; 5 Nature and Convention; Plato's Political Programme; 6 Totalitarian Justice
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7 The Principle of Leadership8 The Philosopher King; 9 Aestheticism, Perfectionism, Utopianism; The Background of Plato's Attack; 10 The Open Society and Its Enemies; Addenda (1957, 1961, 1965); VOLUME II: THE HIGH TIDE OF PROPHECY; The Rise of Oracular Philosophy; 11 The Aristotelian Roots of Hegelianism; 12 Hegel and the New Tribalism; Marx's Method; 13 Marx's Sociological Determinism; 14 The Autonomy of Sociology; 15 Economic Historicism; 16 The Classes; 17 The Legal and the Social System; Marx's Prophecy; 18 The Coming of Socialism; 19 The Social Revolution; 20 Capitalism and its Fate
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21 An Evaluation of the ProphecyMarx's Ethics; 22 The Moral Theory of Historicism; The Aftermath; 23 The Sociology of Knowledge; 24 Oracular Philosophy and the Revolt against Reason; Conclusion; 25 Has History any Meaning?; Addenda (1961, 1965); NOTES; NOTES TO VOLUME I; NOTES TO VOLUME II; INDEX;
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781136700255
Additional Edition:
Print version The Open Society and Its Enemies
Language:
English
Keywords:
Historizismus
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Politische Philosophie
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Electronic books
Author information:
Popper, Karl R. 1902-1994
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