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The Open Society and Its Enemies (1+2) by Karl Popper · Booklabria

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The Open Society and Its Enemies (1+2)

PhilosophySociology

The Open Society and Its Enemies (1+2)

Name: The Open Society and Its Enemies (1+2)
Author: Karl Popper

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First published: 1945
Editions: 76 in 6 languages

Synopsis

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.

Subjects: Philosophy
Sociology
Political science
Philosophie
Political
Social sciences
Characters: Karl Marx
Plato
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

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76 in 6 languages

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English58 German7 Spanish4 Turkish2 All 6 languages

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