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The Open Society and Its Enemies (1+2) by Karl Popper is a book available to read on EtoBox.

What is The Open Society and Its Enemies (1+2) about?

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.

Author
Karl Popper
Publisher
Princeton, N.J., Princeton University Press
Published
1963
Language
EN
Subjects
Sociology, Philosophy, Humanities

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