The open society and its enemies.
Edition: [Rev. ed.]
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 1950
Place of publication: Princeton
Language: eng
Number of pages: 732
Subjects: Philosophy; Social sciences
First sentence: This book raises issues which may not be apparent from the table of contents.
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.
Notes: Bibliographical references included in "Notes" (p. [465]-726)
Table of contents: title: Preface
pagenum: v; title: Preface to the Revised Edition
pagenum: vii; title: Acknowledgements
pagenum: ix; title: Introduction
pagenum: 3; title: Part I.  The Spell of Plato; title: The Myth of Origin and Destiny
pagenum: 11; title: Historicism and the Myth of Destiny
pagenum: 11; title: Heraclitus
pagenum: 14; title: Plato's Theory of Forms or Ideas
pagenum: 21; title: Plato's Descriptive Sociology
pagenum: 37; title: Change and Rest
pagenum: 37; title: Nature and Convention
pagenum: 58; title: Plato's Political Program
pagenum: 86; title: Totalitarian Justice
pagenum: 86; title: The Principle of Leadership
pagenum: 119; title: The Philosopher King
pagenum: 136; title: Aestheticism, Perfectionism, Utopianism
pagenum: 154; title: The Background of Plato's Attack
pagenum: 165; title: The Open Society and Its Enemies
pagenum: 165; title: Part II.  The High Tide of Prophecy; title: The Rise of Oracular Philosophy
pagenum: 199; title: The Aristotelian Roots of Hegelianism
pagenum: 199; title: Hegel and The New Tribalism
pagenum: 223; title: Marx's Method
pagenum: 274; title: Marx's Sociological Determinism
pagenum: 274; title: The Autonomy of Sociology
pagenum: 282; title: Economic Historicism
pagenum: 292; title: The Classes
pagenum: 302; title: The Legal and The Social System
pagenum: 308; title: Marx's Prophecy
pagenum: 324; title: The Coming of Socialism
pagenum: 324; title: The Social Revolution
pagenum: 335; title: Capitalism and Its Fate
pagenum: 354; title: An Evaluation of the Prophecy
pagenum: 379; title: Marx's Ethics
pagenum: 385; title: The Moral Theory of Historicism
pagenum: 385; title: The Aftermath
pagenum: 398; title: The Sociology of Knowledge
pagenum: 398; title: Oracular Philosophy and the Revolt against Reason
pagenum: 410; title: Conclusion
pagenum: 443; title: Has History any Meaning?
pagenum: 443; title: Notes
pagenum: 465; title: Index
pagenum: 727