| Description |
1 online resource (x, 217 pages) |
| Contents |
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 -- 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 -- 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 the 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 |
Popper's Open Society After Fifty Years presents a coherent survey of the reception and influence of Karl Popper's masterpiece The Open Society and its Enemies over the fifty years since its publication in 1945, as well as applying some of its principles to the context of modern Eastern Europe. This unique volume contains papers by many of Popper's contemporaries and friends, including such luminaries as Ernst Gombrich, in his paper 'The Open Society and its Enemies: Remembering its Publication Fifty Years Ago' |
| 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 indexes |
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English |
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Print version record |
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Popper, Karl Raimund, Sir, 1902- 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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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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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Regional Studies.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- General.
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Social structure
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Social ethics
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Politics, Practical
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Nationalism
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Philosophy
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Social sciences -- Philosophy
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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Conference papers and proceedings
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Jarvie, I. C. (Ian Charles), 1937-
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Pralong, Sandra, 1958-
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| ISBN |
0203982878 |
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9780203982877 |
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9780415165020 |
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0415165024 |
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1134709986 |
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9781134709984 |
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1280168102 |
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9781280168109 |
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