Popper's Open Society After Fifty Years

Fifty years ago, Routledge took a chance on a bulky manuscript by an unknown thinker, that, it turned out, made a decisive contribution to liberal thought--that book wasThe Open Society and its Enemies. Popper s Open Society After Fifty Yearspresents a survey of the reception and influence of Karl Popper's masterpiece,The Open Society and its Enemiesover the fifty years since its publication in 1945, as well as applying some of its principles to the context of modern Europe. This volume contains papers by many of Popper's contemporaries and friends, including such luminaries as Ernst Gombrich. This volume shows the sharpness of Popper's original analysis and the enduring quality of its theoretical foundations.

List of contributors	p. ix
Acknowledgments	p. x
Preface: Popper Today	p. xi
Preliminaries	p. 1
Introduction	p. 3
Personal recollections of the publication of The Open Society	p. 17
The future is open: a conversation with Sir Karl Popper	p. 28
Addressing the text	p. 39
The Open Society and Its Enemies: authority, community, and bureaucracy	p. 41
Popper and Tarski	p. 56
Popper's ideal types: open and closed, abstract and concrete societies	p. 71
The sociological deficit of The Open Society, analyzed and remedied	p. 83
A whiff of Hegel in The Open Society?	p. 97
Applying the text	p. 109
The problem of objectivity in law and ethics	p. 111
Minima Moralia: is there an ethics of the open society?	p. 128
What use is Popper to a practical politician?	p. 146
The Polish Church as an enemy of the open society: some reflections on post-communist social-political transformations in Central Europe	p. 159
Life after liberalism	p. 170
The notion of the modern nation-state: Popper and nationalism	p. 182
Is there causality in history?	p. 197
Matching Popperian theory to practice	p. 203
Subject index	p. 208
Name index	p. 214
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