The Open Society and its Enemies Series by Karl Popper

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  • The Open Society and Its Enemies: Volume 1: The Spell of Plato (The Open Society and its Enemies #1)
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    The Open Society and Its Enemies: Volume 1: The Spell of Plato (The Open Society and its Enemies #1)

    Karl Popper

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings · published 1945

    Written in political exile during the Second World War and first published in 1945, Karl Popper's The Open Society and Its Enemies is one of the most influential books of the twentieth century. Hailed by Bertrand Russell as a 'vigorous and profound defence of democracy', its now legendary attack on the philosophies of Plato, Hegel and Marx exposed the dangers inherent in centrally planned political systems... more

  • The Open Society and Its Enemies (The Open Society and its Enemies #1+2)
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    The Open Society and Its Enemies (The Open Society and its Enemies #1+2)

    Karl Popper

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings · published 1385

    One of the most important books of the twentieth century, Karl Popper's The Open Society and Its Enemies is an uncompromising defense of liberal democracy and a powerful attack on the intellectual origins of totalitarianism. Popper was born in 1902 to a Viennese family of Jewish origin. He taught in Austria until 1937, when he emigrated to New Zealand in anticipation of the Nazi annexation of Austria the following year, and he settled in England in 1949... more

  • Open Society and Its Enemies, Volume 2: The High Tide of Prophecy: Hegel, Marx, and the Aftermath (The Open Society and its Enemies #2)
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    Open Society and Its Enemies, Volume 2: The High Tide of Prophecy: Hegel, Marx, and the Aftermath (The Open Society and its Enemies #2)

    Karl Popper

    Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings · published 1945

    Popper was born in 1902 to a Viennese family of Jewish origin. He taught in Austria until 1937, when he emigrated to New Zealand in anticipation of the Nazi annexation of Austria the following year, and he settled in England in 1949. Before the annexation, Popper had written mainly about the philosophy of science, but from 1938 until the end of the Second World War he focused his energies on political philosophy, seeking to diagnose the intellectual origins of German and Soviet totalitarianism... more

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