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9780415309080

After The Open Society: Selected Social and Political Writings

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    9780415309080

  • ISBN10:

    0415309085

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2008-05-14
  • Publisher: Routledge
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Summary

Karl Popper's The Open Society and Its Enemies was first published in 1945 and is widely regarded as a classic of twentieth century political thought. In this long-awaited volume, Jeremy Shearmur and Piers Norris Turner bring to light Popper's most important unpublished and uncollected writings from the time of The Open Society until his death in 1994. After the Open Society: Selected Social and Political Writings reveals the development of Popper's political and philosophical thought during and after the Second World War, from his early socialism through to the radical humanitarianism of The Open Society . The papers in this collection, many of which are available here for the first time, demonstrate the clarity and pertinence of Popper's thinking on such topics as religion, history, Plato and Aristotle, while revealing a lifetime of unwavering political commitment. The volume also includes fascinating correspondences with Rudolf Carnap, Friedrich Hayek andIsaiah Berlin, as well as important reflections on the Cold War, the treatment of Germany after the Second World War, the Vietnam War, nuclear weapons and the use and misuse of television. In doing so, it presents a unique picture of Popper's views on some of the major political and social debates and events of the twentieth century. After the Open Society illuminates the thought of one of the twentieth century's greatest philosophers and is essential reading for anyone interested in the recent course of philosophy, politics, history and society.

Table of Contents

Editorial introductionp. viii
Acknowledgementsp. xxxi
Popper's booksp. xxxiii
Introduction
Optimist, pessimist and pragmatist views of scientific knowledge (1963)p. 3
Memories of Austria
Julius Kraft, 1898-1960 (1962)p. 13
Memories of Otto Neurath (1973)p. 25
Preface to Fritz Kolb, Es kam ganz anders (It all turned out very differently) (1981)p. 31
Anti-Semitism in Austria: a letter to Friedrich Hayek (1969)p. 35
Lectures from New Zealand
Science and religion (1940); appendix: Karl Popper on God: interview with Edward Zerin (1969/1998)p. 41
Ideal and reality in society (1940)p. 53
Moral man and immoral society (1940)p. 62
Is there meaning in history? (1940)p. 72
On The Open Society
Correspondence with Carnap on Social Philosophy (1940-50)p. 85
Letter to Fritz Hellin on The Open Society (1943)p. 109
Letter to Alfred Braunthal on The Open Society (1943)p. 112
Uniting the camp of humanitarianism (1943-47)p. 113
Public and private values (1946?); appendix: 'Utopianism and the open society'p. 118
The theory of totalitarianism: a talk on The Open Society (1946?); appendix 1: The open and the closed society; appendix 2: The treatment of Germanyp. 132
Social institutions and personal responsibility (1947)p. 143
The Open Society after five years: prefaces to the American edition of The Open Society (1948-50)p. 169
Platonic holiday (1948)p. 182
Response to de Vries (1952)p. 184
On The Free Man's Library (1956)p. 196
Letters to Isaiah Berlin (1959 and 1989)p. 199
Historical explanation: an interview (1962/1966)p. 205
Correspondence with Ernst Badian on Aristotle's political views (1965)p. 214
Plato (1968)p. 219
The Cold War and After
The open society and the democratic state (1963)p. 231
Popper to Hayek on the abstract society and 'inner freedom' (1964)p. 249
The status of science: a broadcast to Russia (1963)p. 255
A note on the Cold War (1966)p. 262
How to get out of Vietnam (1969)p. 269
On For Conservatives Only (1970)p. 271
Was ist liberal? (What is it to be liberal?) (1972)p. 273
On reason and the open society: a conversation (1972)p. 275
For a better world (1973)p. 288
Historical prophecy as an obstacle to peace (1973)p. 298
To Bryan Magee on nationalization (1974)p. 306
Preface to the second Italian edition of The Poverty of Historicism (1975)p. 308
On The New Liberty (after 1975)p. 312
On toleration (1981)p. 313
The importance of critical discussion: an argument for human rights and democracy (1981/82)p. 329
The critical attitude in medicine: the need for a new ethics (1983)p. 341
Response upon receiving the Award of the Fondation Tocqueville (1984)p. 355
On democracy (1988)p. 360
Outline of my views of what matters (1988)p. 370
Historicism and the Soviet Union (1991)p. 378
The Open Society today: its great yet limited success (1991)p. 383
A letter to my Russian readers (1992)p. 394
The communist road to self-enslavement (1992); appendix: Tribute to the life and work of Friedrich Hayekp. 402
Europe now exists (1993)p. 411
The power of television (1994)p. 413
Notesp. 425
Indexp. 483
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