The Open Society and Its Enemies

Name: The Open Society and Its Enemies
ISBN: 9780415282369

Karl Popper

1945·804 pages·Nonfiction

History & Politics Literary Fiction

classics

“vigorous and profound defence of democracy'”
— Bertrand Russell

Written in political exile in New Zealand during the Second World War and published in two volumes in 1945, The Open Society and its Enemies was. This 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. It remains highly readable, erudite and lucid and as essential reading today as on publication in 1945. It is available here in a special centenary single-volume edition.

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