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Popper's "Open Society" after fifty years : the continuing relevance of Karl Popper /

Today's world and its problems seem, at least at first glance, very different from those addressed by the author of "The Open Society and Its Enemies" (1945). Popper himself, looking back on the book only five years after its publication, was struck by the naïvete of its optimism, and...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autores principales: Jarvie, I. C. (Ian Charles), 1937- (Autor, Editor ), Pralong, Sandra, 1958- (Autor, Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London ; New York : Routledge, 2002.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Part I. Preliminaries ; Introduction / Ian Jarvie and Sandra Pralong
  • Personal recollections of the publication of "The Open Society" / E. H. Gombrich
  • The future is open : a conversation with Sir Karl Popper / Adam J. Chmielewski and Karl R. Popper
  • Part II. Addressing the text ; "The Open Society and Its Enemies" : authority, community, and bureaucracy / Mark A. Notturno
  • Popper and Tarski / David Miller
  • Popper's ideal types : open and closed, abstract and concrete societies / Ian Jarvie
  • The sociological deficit of "The Open Society", analyzed and remedied / John A. Hall
  • A whiff of Hegel in "The Open Society"? / John Watkins
  • Part III. Applying the text ; The problem of objectivity in law and ethics / Christoph von Mettenheim
  • "Minima Moralia" : is there an ethics of the open society? / Sandra Pralong
  • What use is Popper to a practical politician? / Bryan Magee
  • The Polish Church as an enemy of the open society : some reflections on post-communist social-political transformations in Central Europe / Andrzej Flis
  • Life after liberalism / Adam J. Chmielewski
  • The notion of the modern nation-state : Popper and nationalism / Joseph Agassi
  • Is there causality in history? / Cyril Höschl
  • Matching Popperian theory to practice / Fred Eidlin.