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FOREWORD
PREFACE: ‘KARL POPPER’S THE OPEN SOCIETY AND ITS ENEMIES IN THE CONTEMPORARY GLOBAL WORLD’
‘PERSONAL RECOLLECTIONS OF THE PUBLICATION OF THE OPEN SOCIETY’
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION
PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION
INTRODUCTION
VOLUME I: THE SPELL OF PLATO
The Myth of Origin and Destiny
1 Historicism and the Myth of Destiny
2 Heraclitus
3 Plato’s Theory of Forms or Ideas
Plato’s Descriptive Sociology
4 Change and Rest
5 Nature and Convention
Plato’s Political Programme
6 Totalitarian Justice
7 The Principle of Leadership
8 The Philosopher King
9 Aestheticism, Perfectionism, Utopianism
The Background of Plato’s Attack
10 The Open Society and Its Enemies
Addenda (1957, 1961, 1965)
VOLUME II: THE HIGH TIDE OF PROPHECY
The Rise of Oracular Philosophy
11 The Aristotelian Roots of Hegelianism
12 Hegel and the New Tribalism
Marx’s Method
13 Marx’s Sociological Determinism
14 The Autonomy of Sociology
15 Economic Historicism
16 The Classes
17 The Legal and the Social System
Marx’s Prophecy
18 The Coming of Socialism
19 The Social Revolution
20 Capitalism and its Fate
21 An Evaluation of the Prophecy
Marx’s Ethics
22 The Moral Theory of Historicism
The Aftermath
23 The Sociology of Knowledge
24 Oracular Philosophy and the Revolt against Reason
Conclusion
25 Has History any Meaning?
Addenda (1961, 1965)
NOTES
NOTES TO VOLUME I
NOTES TO VOLUME II
INDEX
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