The Open Society and Its Enemies (Paperback)

Foreword  Preface: ‘Karl Popper’s The Open Society and Its Enemies in the contemporary global world’ by Vaclav Havel.  ‘Personal Recollections of the Publication of The Open Society’ by E.H. Gombrich.  Acknowledgements  Preface to the First Edition  Preface to the Second Edition  Introduction  VOLUME 1: 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  VOLUME 2: 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. 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  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 1  Notes to Volume 2  Index