Tracing the concept of the open society-one based on the idea of a universal community of mankind-from its origins to the present day, Dante Germino reveals in this study the central role of openness in forming man's perception of himself and his world and presents n important new political theory of the open society. Political Philosophy and the Open Society begins with the definition of openness in its various meanings and with a description of the idea of the open society. Believing that "an adequate theory of the open society must be grounded on the entire known history of mankind,"...