
The Open Society and Its Enemies
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Liam Gerrard
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Karl Popper
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. 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. The Open Society and Its Enemies was the result.
An immediate sensation when it was first published in two volumes in 1945, Popper's monumental achievement has attained legendary status on both the Left and Right and is credited with inspiring anticommunist dissidents during the Cold War. Arguing that the spirit of free, critical inquiry that governs scientific investigation should also apply to politics, Popper traces the roots of an opposite, authoritarian tendency to a tradition represented by Plato, Marx, and Hegel.
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Clear, long-view philosophical argument against Plato/Hegel/Marx
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A Thorough Defense of Pluralism
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Thoughtful and engaging
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Such Delicious Moral Logic
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Good but heavy!
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A very difficult book
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Nothing to do with Liberal Democracy
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Anti-Marxist indeed
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It's much aided by his main area of interest which was the epistemology of science. Of course, he is well known for his "black swan" metaphor, and also the idea that a valid scientific hypothesis or theory must be falsifiable, but he went way beyond that. This background helped Popper to understand and then to explain the dubiousness of historicism, which he shows was handed down from Plato, to Hegel, to Marx, and to current adherents. He really blasts Hegel, for one.
Lots to absorb out of a pretty long book; will have to listen again.
I hope Audible makes more of his books available.
Riveting development of ideas
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eye opener
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