| Description |
1 online resource (xx, 217 pages) |
| Contents |
Part I. Preliminaries ; Introduction / Ian Jarvie and Sandra Pralong -- Personal recollections of the publication of "The Open Society" / E. H. Gombrich -- The future is open : a conversation with Sir Karl Popper / Adam J. Chmielewski and Karl R. Popper -- Part II. Addressing the text ; "The Open Society and Its Enemies" : authority, community, and bureaucracy / Mark A. Notturno -- Popper and Tarski / David Miller -- Popper's ideal types : open and closed, abstract and concrete societies / Ian Jarvie -- The sociological deficit of "The Open Society", analyzed and remedied / John A. Hall -- A whiff of Hegel in "The Open Society"? / John Watkins -- Part III. Applying the text ; The problem of objectivity in law and ethics / Christoph von Mettenheim -- "Minima Moralia" : is there an ethics of the open society? / Sandra Pralong -- What use is Popper to a practical politician? / Bryan Magee -- The Polish Church as an enemy of the open society : some reflections on post-communist social-political transformations in Central Europe / Andrzej Flis -- Life after liberalism / Adam J. Chmielewski -- The notion of the modern nation-state : Popper and nationalism / Joseph Agassi -- Is there causality in history? / Cyril Höschl -- Matching Popperian theory to practice / Fred Eidlin |
| Summary |
Today's world and its problems seem, at least at first glance, very different from those addressed by the author of "The Open Society and Its Enemies" (1945). Popper himself, looking back on the book only five years after its publication, was struck by the naïvete of its optimism, and the distance of his own voice (Preface to the second edition, 1950). Some of that sea-change was due to the Cold War. In turn, that period and its problems that have come to seem distant from today. Although the tone and emphasis of the book owed a lot to its time of writing (1938- 1943) and its author's aims, it turned out to be much more than a pièce d'occasion. Popper's aim at the time was to articulate those lines of division between the true friends and the true enemies of the open society that went deeper than the immediate conflict. Perhaps it was success in his chosen task that has kept the book alive for so long. Now that its author has gone, it passes to those of us stimulated by his ideas to show their continuing relevance by thinking through their application to the problems of the world today and tomorrow. Let us examine the book's relevance today by reviewing its main ideas (section 1) with a view to working them out for the present time (section 2) and, very tentatively, projecting them into the future (section 3) |
| 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 at chapter ends, and indexes |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Popper, Karl R. (Karl Raimund), 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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Social ethics -- Congresses
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Social structure -- Congresses
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Politics, Practical -- Congresses
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Nationalism -- Congresses
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Philosophy
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Social sciences -- Philosophy
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proceedings (reports)
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Conference papers and proceedings
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Conference papers and proceedings.
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Actes de congrès.
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Jarvie, I. C. (Ian Charles), 1937- editor, author.
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Pralong, Sandra, 1958- editor, author.
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| ISBN |
9780203982877 |
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0203982878 |
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