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A landmark defense of democracy that has been hailed as one of the most important books of the twentieth centuryOne of the most important books of the twentieth century, The Open Society and Its Enemies is an uncompromising defense of liberal democracy and a powerful attack on the intellectual origins of totalitarianism. An immediate sensation when it was first published, Karl Popper's monumental achievement has attained legendary status on both the Left and Right. Tracing the roots of an authoritarian tradition represented by Plato, Marx, and Hegel, Popper argues that the spirit of free, critical inquiry that governs scientific investigation should also apply to politics. In a new foreword, George Soros, who was a student of Popper, describes the "revelation" of first reading the book and how it helped inspire his philanthropic Open Society Foundations

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 hailed by Bertrand Russell as a 'vigorous and profound defence of democracy'. This legendary 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

'If in this book harsh words are spoken about some of the greatest among the intellectual leaders of mankind, my motive is not, I hope, to belittle them. It springs rather from my conviction that, if our civilization is to survive, we must break with the habit of deference to great men.'- Karl Popper, from the PrefaceWritten in political exile during the Second World War and first published in two volumes in 1945, Karl Popper's The Open Society and Its Enemies is one of the most influential books of all time. Hailed by Bertrand Russell as a 'vigorous and profound defence of democracy', its no

Zusammenstellung ausgewählter Texte aus dem Gesamtwerk Karl R. Poppers (1902-1994), aus Anlass seines 100. Geburtstags herausgegeben. Die Sammlung ist systematisch in 3 Teile gegliedert (Bewusstsein und Selbstbewusstsein, Erkenntnis und Wissen, Politik und Geschichte) und bietet einen Querschnitt durch das Denken dieses einflussreichen Philosophen.

1. Omniscience and fallibility -- 2. Childhood memories -- 3. Early influences -- 4. The first World War -- 5. An early philosophical problem : infinity -- 6. My first philosophical failure : the problem of essentialism -- 7. A long digression concerning essentialism : what still divides me from most contemporary philosophers -- 8. A crucial year : Marxism; science and pseudoscience -- 9. Early studies -- 10. A second digression : dogmatic and critical thinking; learning without induction -- 11. Music -- 12. Speculations about the rise of polyphonic music : psychology of discovery or logic of discovery? -- 13. Two kinds of music -- 14. Progressivism in art, especially in music -- 15. Last years at the university -- 16. Theory of knowledge : Logik der Forschung -- 17. Who killed logical positivism? -- 18. Realism and quantum theory -- 19. Objectivity and physics -- 20. Truth; probability; corroboration -- 21. The approaching war; the Jewish problem -- 22. Emigration : England and New Zealand -- 23. Early work in New Zealand -- 24. The open society and the poverty of historicism -- 25. Other work in New Zealand -- 26. England : at the London School of Economics and Political Science -- 27. Early work in England -- 28. First visit to the United States : meeting Einstein -- 29. Problems and theories -- 30. Debates with Schrdinger -- 31. Objectivity and criticism -- 32. Induction; deduction; objective truth -- 33. Metaphysical research programmes -- 34. Fighting subjectivism in physics : quantum mechanics and propensity -- 35. Boltzmann and the arrow of time -- 36. The subjectivist theory of entropy -- 37. Darwinism as a metaphysical research programme -- 38. World 3 or the third world -- 39. The body-mind problem and world 3 -- 40. The place of values in a world of facts.