Tenho o dois volumes originais da Routledge, em algum canto da minha biblioteca, mas downloadei a versão de 2011, em Kindle.
A versão original é esta: The Open Society and its Enemies. Londres: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1945, 2 vols.
A atual é esta:
The Open Society and Its Enemies
Copyright Year 2011
Book Description
‘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 Preface
Written 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 now legendary attack on the philosophies of Plato, Hegel and Marx exposed the dangers inherent in centrally planned political systems and through underground editions become an inspiration to lovers of freedom living under communism in Eastern Europe.
Popper’s highly accessible style, his erudite and lucid explanations of the thoughts of great philosophers and the recent resurgence of totalitarian regimes around the world are just three of the reasons for the enduring popularity of The Open Society and Its Enemies and why it demands to be read today and in years to come.
Table of Contents
Foreword
Preface: ‘Karl Popper’s The Open Society and Its Enemies in the contemporary global world’ by Václav 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
Biography
Sir Karl Popper was one of the foremost philosophers of the Twentieth century. Born in Vienna in 1902, Popper grew up in a city witnessing great intellectual ferment. His relationship with the philosophers and scientists led to his first book, The Logic of Scientific Discovery, published in 1934. On its publication in English in 1959 it was described by The New Scientist as ‘one of the most important documents of the twentieth century’. On the eve of World War Two Popper was forced to flee to New Zealand, where he took up a teaching post at Canterbury University College at Christchurch. It was there, reflecting on the tyranny sweeping through Eastern Europe, that he wrote The Open Society and Its Enemies, published in 1945. In 1946 Popper moved to the London School of Economics, where he taught until his retirement in 1969. This period saw the publication of The Poverty of Historicism, described by the Sunday Times as ‘probably the only book which will outlive this century’. He was knighted in 1965 and appointed Companion of Honour in 1982. He died in 1994.
The Poverty of Historicism
ISBN 9780415278461
Book Description
On its publication in 1957, The Poverty of Historicism was hailed by Arthur Koestler as 'probably the only book published this year which will outlive the century.'
A devastating criticism of fixed and predictable laws in history, Popper dedicated the book to all those 'who fell victim to the fascist and communist belief in Inexorable Laws of Historical Destiny.' Short and beautifully written, it has inspired generations of readers, intellectuals and policy makers. One of the most important books on the social sciences since the Second World War, it is a searing insight into the ideas of this great thinker.
Author(s)
Biography
Karl Popper (1902-94). Philosopher, born in Vienna. One of the most influential and controversial thinkers of the twentieth century.
Reviews
'Karl Popper was a philosopher of uncommon originality, clarity and depth, and his range was exceptional.' - The Times
'One of the most influential thinkers of the 20th century.' - The Daily Telegraph
'Popper's work is of far greater than mere academic value; it has an immediate and manifest bearing on the political decisions everyone has to make.' - The Listener
'This is one of the three or four most important books of the methodology of the social sciences to appear since the war.' - New Statesman'This is the theoretical companion to the better-known Open Society and Its Enemies. It puts paid to all attempts at futurology by pointing out that the future depends on new knowledge which by definition we do not have today.' - Samuel Brittan, The Week
