The Open Society and Its Enemies by Karl Popper, Václav Havel

By Karl Popper, Václav Havel

‘If during this e-book harsh phrases are spoken approximately many of the maximum one of the highbrow leaders of mankind, my rationale isn't, i'm hoping, to belittle them. It springs quite from my conviction that, if our civilization is to outlive, we needs to holiday with the behavior of deference to nice men.’- Karl Popper, from the Preface

Written in political exile through the moment global struggle and primary released in volumes in 1945, Karl Popper’s The Open Society and Its Enemies is likely one of the so much influential books of all time. Hailed through Bertrand Russell as a ‘vigorous and profound defence of democracy’, its now mythical assault at the philosophies of Plato, Hegel and Marx uncovered the risks inherent in centrally deliberate political structures and during underground variants turn into an thought to enthusiasts of freedom residing lower than communism in japanese Europe.

Popper’s hugely obtainable sort, his erudite and lucid motives of the options of serious philosophers and the new resurgence of totalitarian regimes world wide are only 3 of the explanations for the iconic acclaim for The Open Society and Its Enemies and why it calls for to be learn at the present time and in years yet to come.

Show description

Read or Download The Open Society and Its Enemies PDF

Best greek & roman books

The Cambridge Companion to the Roman Republic

Interpreting all points of Roman heritage and civilization from 509-49 BC. , this better half spans the advance of the vintage republican political process and the expansion of a global empire. It additionally records the last word disintegration of the approach lower than the relentless strain of inner dissension and the boundless ambition of best politicians.

Aristotle in China: Language, Categories and Translation

This publication considers the relation among language and concept. Robert Wardy explores this massive subject through reading linguistic relativism near to a chinese language translation of Aristotle's different types. He addresses a few key questions, akin to, do the elemental buildings of language form the main idea styles of its local audio system?

Vital Nourishment: Departing from Happiness

The philosophical culture within the West has regularly subjected lifestyles to conceptual divisions and questions about which means. In very important Nourishment, François Jullien contends that even supposing this procedure has given upward push to a wealthy heritage of inquiry, it proceeds too quick. of their nervousness approximately that means, Western thinkers on the grounds that Plato have forgotten just to adventure lifestyles.

Additional resources for The Open Society and Its Enemies

Example text

I am deeply indebted to Professor F. A. von Hayek. Without his interest and support the book would not have been published. Professor E. Gombrich has undertaken to see the book through the press, a burden to which was added the strain of an exacting correspondence between England and New Zealand. He has been so helpful that I can hardly say how much I owe to him. , April 1944. In preparing the revised edition, I have received great help from detailed critical annotations to the first edition kindly put at my disposal by Professor Jacob Viner and by Mr.

I am terribly sorry to hear that you feel so exhausted. But I can well understand it. I long to hear you speak of your experiences, and of what you have learned during these years. (Will it ever be? I am nearly 43 now, and if I don’t manage to see you before I am 45, I may never have the opportunity: I don’t think that anybody would import to England a lecturer over the age of 45 …). Though I know the time is getting on, I really must quote for you the whole story of how Karl received the news of his appointment, as he told in his letter of 12 June 1945: During the whole of April I was ill again.

But I can well understand it. I long to hear you speak of your experiences, and of what you have learned during these years. (Will it ever be? I am nearly 43 now, and if I don’t manage to see you before I am 45, I may never have the opportunity: I don’t think that anybody would import to England a lecturer over the age of 45 …). Though I know the time is getting on, I really must quote for you the whole story of how Karl received the news of his appointment, as he told in his letter of 12 June 1945: During the whole of April I was ill again.

Download PDF sample

Rated 4.36 of 5 – based on 19 votes