The Open Society and Its Enemies

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Karl Popper: The Open Society and Its Enemies (1949, Routledge & K. Paul)

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Published 1949 by Routledge & K. Paul.

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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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  • Philosophy
  • Social sciences