The Open Society and Its Enemies
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713 pages
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 societi
ISBN: 9783161459535
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Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Activism & Nonprofits"One of the biggest lessons for me from this book is that so many bad ideas that lead to authoritarian consequences begin with good intentions."
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David Deutsch
Science & Research"My starting point [into the author's philosophy]."
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