The Open Society and Its Enemies: Hegel and Marx

ISBN-13: 9780415290630 / Angielski / Twarda / 2002 / 480 str.

Karl Popper

Opis

Written in political exile in New Zealand during the World War II and first published in two volumes in 1945, Karl Popper's The Open Society and its Enemies was hailed by Bertrand Russell as a vigorous and profound defence of democracy. Its now legendary attack on the philosophies of Plato, Hegel and Marx prophesied the collapse of communism in Eastern Europe and exposed the fatal flaws of socially engineered political systems.

Recenzje

'A modern classic.' - The Independent

'A brilliant polemic It remains the best intellectual defence of liberal democracy against know-it-all totalitarianism.' - The Economist

'This is a work of great interest and significance, stimulating and suggestive throughout. Dr Popper's virtues are manifold. He has a great fertility of ideas. Almost every sentence gives us something to think about.' - G.C. Field, Philosophy

Spis treści

The High Tide of Prophecy. The Rise of Oracular Philosophy - The Aristotelian Roots of Hegelianism, hegel and The New Tribalism. Marx's Method - Marx's Sociological Determinism, The Autonomy of Sociology, Economic Historicism, The Classes, The Legal and the Cocial System. Marx's Prophecy - The Coming of Socialism, The Social Revolution, Capitalism and Its Fate, An Evaluation of the Prophecy. Marx's Ethics - The Moral Theory of Historicism. The Aftermath - The Sociology of Knowledgy, Oracular Philosophy and the Revolt aganist Reason. Conclusion - Has History any Meaning? Addenda (1961, 1965).

O autorze

Karl Popper (1902-1994). Philosopher, born in Vienna. One of the most influential and controversial thinkers of the twentieth century.