The Open Society and Its Enemies

出版者:Princeton University Press

作者:Karl Raimund Popper

页数:824

出版时间:2013-4-21

价格:USD 35.00

装帧:Paperback

isbn号码:9780691158136

具体描述

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.

In a substantial new introduction written for this edition, acclaimed political philosopher Alan Ryan puts Popper's landmark work in biographical, intellectual, and historical context. Also included is a personal essay by eminent art historian E. H. Gombrich, in which he recounts the story of the book's eventual publication despite numerous rejections and wartime deprivations.

作者简介

卡尔·波普尔爵士（Sir Karl Raimund Popper）是当代西方杰出的科学哲学家和社会哲学家。他的《历史决定论的贫困》（The Poverty of Historicism）和《开放社会及其敌人》（The Open Society and its Enemies）是西方民主思想宝库中的经典著作。波普尔曾经由于这两部书获得过英国女皇颁授的爵位。

读后感

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用户评价

思辨性极强、信息量极大的一本书。1）naive monism, the characteristic of the 'closed society'. critical dualism, of the 'open society'；2）There is no meaning in history. （we make our fate. ）3）目前读还很吃力。内功不够！

思辨性极强、信息量极大的一本书。1）naive monism, the characteristic of the 'closed society'. critical dualism, of the 'open society'；2）There is no meaning in history. （we make our fate. ）3）目前读还很吃力。内功不够！

思辨性极强、信息量极大的一本书。1）naive monism, the characteristic of the 'closed society'. critical dualism, of the 'open society'；2）There is no meaning in history. （we make our fate. ）3）目前读还很吃力。内功不够！

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思辨性极强、信息量极大的一本书。1）naive monism, the characteristic of the 'closed society'. critical dualism, of the 'open society'；2）There is no meaning in history. （we make our fate. ）3）目前读还很吃力。内功不够！