The Open Society and Its Enemies
Princeton Classics - 115
2020
(First published: 1945)
Written in political exile during the Second World War, 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.
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