The Open Society and Its Enemies (1+2)
About this book
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.
Subjects
- communism
- historisme
- historizismus
- liberty
- long now manual for civilization
- philosophie
- philosophy
- political
- political culture
- political science
- political science, philosophy
- politische philosophie
- sciences sociales
- social change
- sociale ideeën
- socialism
- social sciences
- social sciences, philosophy
- sociologia
- sociologie
- sociology
- totalitarisme