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Popper's Open society after fifty years : the continuing relevance of Karl Popper / edited by Ian Jarvie and Sandra Pralong.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Popper, Karl R. (Karl Raimund), 1902-1994. Open society and its enemies--Congresses.
- Popper, Karl R.
- Philosophy--Congresses.
- Philosophy.
- Social sciences--Philosophy--Congresses.
- Social sciences.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (241 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- London ; New York : Routledge, 1999.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Popper's Open Society After Fifty Years presents a coherent survey of the reception and influence of Karl Popper's masterpiece The Open Society and its Enemies over the fifty years since its publication in 1945, as well as applying some of its principles to the context of modern Eastern Europe.This unique volume contains papers by many of Popper's contemporaries and friends, including such luminaries as Ernst Gombrich, in his paper 'The Open Society and its Enemies: Remembering its Publication Fifty Years Ago'.
- Contents:
- POPPER'S OPEN SOCIETY AFTER FIFTY YEARS The continuing relevance of Karl Popper; Copyright; Contents; List of contributors; Acknowledgments; Preface; Part I Preliminaries; Introduction; 1 Personal recollections of the publication of The Open Society; 2 The future is open: a conversation with Sir Karl Popper; Part II Addressing the text; 3 The Open Society and Its Enemies: authority, community, and bureaucracy; 4 Popper and Tarski; 5 Popper's ideal types: open and closed, abstract and concrete societies; 6 The sociological deficit of The Open Society, analyzed and remedied
- 7 A whiff of Hegel in The Open Society?Part III Applying the text; 8 The problem of objectivity in law and ethics; 9 Minima Moralia: is there an ethics of the open society?; 10 What use is Popper to a practical politician?; 11 The Polish Church as an enemy of the open society: some reflections on post-communist social-political transformations in Central Europe; 12 Life after liberalism; 13 The notion of the modern nation-state: Popper and nationalism; 14 Is there causality in history?; 15 Matching Popperian theory to practice; Subject index; Name index
- Notes:
- Revised papers presented at a conference held in 1995 at the Central European University, Prague in commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the publication of Karl Popper's The open society and its enemies.
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-134-70997-8
- 1-134-70998-6
- 1-280-16810-2
- 0-203-98287-8
- 9780203982877
- OCLC:
- 437156364
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