Ebook {Epub PDF} The Open Society and Its Enemies by Karl Popper

Karl Popper’s “The Open Society and Its Enemies” is one of the greatest defenses of liberal democracy ever written. Like some medieval monk, he toiled away in virtual isolation in New Zealand during the depths of World War II, an exile and Jewish refugee from his native Austria/5(). Opponents of the Open Society who see it as being too coercive are slighted by Popper, mentioned only in the context of Popper’s astonishing smears of laissez faire, his continual granting of Marxist historical points against capitalism, and his cheerful parading before us of those “democratic reforms” that have all but obliterated the unhampered free market www.doorway.ruted Reading Time: 9 mins.  · One of the most important books of the twentieth century, The Open Society and Its Enemies is an uncompromising defense of liberal democracy and a powerful attack on the intellectual origins of www.doorway.rued on: Septem.

- Karl Popper, from the Preface. Written in political exile during the Second World War and first published in two volumes in , Karl Popper's The Open Society and Its Enemies is one of the most influential books of all time. The Open Society and Its Enemies was the result. An immediate sensation when it was first published in two volumes in , Popper's monumental achievement has attained legendary status on both the Left and Right and is credited with inspiring anticommunist dissidents during the Cold War. 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 Open Society and Its Enemies is a work on political philosophy by the philosopher Karl Popper, in which the author presents a "defence of the open society against its enemies", and offers a critique of theories of teleological historicism, according to which history unfolds inexorably according to universal laws. Popper indicts Plato, Hegel, and Marx as totalitarian for relying on historicism to underpin their political philosophies. Written during World War II, The Open Society and Its Enem. Opponents of the Open Society who see it as being too coercive are slighted by Popper, mentioned only in the context of Popper’s astonishing smears of laissez faire, his continual granting of Marxist historical points against capitalism, and his cheerful parading before us of those “democratic reforms” that have all but obliterated the unhampered free market economy. One of the most important books of the twentieth century, The Open Society and Its Enemies is an uncompromising defense of liberal democracy and a powerful attack on the intellectual origins of totalitarianism.