| Description |
x, 217 pages ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Pt. I. Preliminaries -- Introduction / Ian Jarvie and Sandra Pralong. 1. Personal recollections of the publication of The Open Society / E. H. Gombrich. 2. The future is open: a conversation with Sir Karl Popper / Adam J. Chmielewski and Karl R. Popper -- Pt. II. Addressing the text. 3. The Open Society and Its Enemies: authority, community, and bureaucracy / Mark A. Notturno. 4. Popper and Tarski / David Miller. 5. Popper's ideal types: open and closed, abstract and concrete societies / Ian Jarvie. 6. The sociological deficit of The Open Society, analyzed and remedied / John A. Hall. 7. A whiff of Hegel in The Open Society? / John Watkins -- Pt. III. Applying the text. 8. The problem of objectivity in law and ethics / Christoph von Mettenheim. 9. Minima Moralia: is there an ethics of the open society? / Sandra Pralong. 10. What use is Popper to a practical politician? / Bryan Magee |
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11. The Polish Church as an enemy of the open society: some reflections on post-communist social-political transformations in Central Europe / Andrzej Flis. 12. Life after liberalism / Adam J. Chmielewski. 13. The notion of the modern nation-state: Popper and nationalism / Joseph Agassi. 14. Is there causality in history? / Cyril Hoschl. 15. Matching Popperian theory to practice / Fred Eidlin |
| Notes |
Revised papers presented at a conference held in 1995 at the Central European University, Prague in commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the publication of Karl Popper's The open society and its enemies |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Popper, Karl R. (Karl Raimund), 1902-1994. Open society and its enemies -- Congresses
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Popper, Karl, Sir, 1902-1994. Open society and its enemies -- Congresses
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Philosophy -- Congresses.
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Social sciences -- Philosophy -- Congresses.
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| Genre/Form |
Conference papers and proceedings.
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| Author |
Jarvie, I. C. (Ian Charles), 1937-
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Pralong, Sandra, 1958-
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| LC no. |
98047993 |
| ISBN |
0415165024 |
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