After The Open Society: Selected Social and Political Writings

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Routledge, May 1, 2014 - Philosophy - 528 pages

In this long-awaited volume, Jeremy Shearmur and Piers Norris Turner bring to light Popper's most important unpublished and uncollected writings from the time of The Open Society until his death in 1994.
After The Open Society: Selected Social and Political Writings reveals the development of Popper's political and philosophical thought during and after the Second World War, from his early socialism through to the radical humanitarianism of The Open Society. The papers in this collection, many of which are available here for the first time, demonstrate the clarity and pertinence of Popper's thinking on such topics as religion, history, Plato and Aristotle, while revealing a lifetime of unwavering political commitment.
After The Open Society illuminates the thought of one of the twentieth century's greatest philosophers and is essential reading for anyone interested in the recent course of philosophy, politics, history and society.

 

Selected pages

Contents

Editorial introduction
Optimist pessimist and pragmatist views of scientific knowledge 1963
Julius Kraft 18981960 1962
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a letter to Friedrich Hayek 1969
Ideal and reality in society 1940
Moral man and immoral society 1940
8
a broadcast to Russia 1963
A note on the Cold War 1966
How to get out of Vietnam 1969
On
To Bryan Magee on nationalization 1974
Preface to the second Italianedition ofThe Poverty of Historicism New Liberty after 1975
36
On toleration 1981

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Letter to Fritz Hellin on The Open Society 1943
atalkon The Open Society
Social institutions andpersonal responsibility 1947
Platonic holiday 1948
Response todeVries1952 19 On The FreeMans Library 1956
an interview 19621966
Correspondence with Ernst Badian on Aristotles political views 1965
THE COLD WAR ANDAFTER 24 The open society and the democratic state 1963
Popper to Hayek on the abstract society and ªinner freedom 1964
an argument for human rights
the need foranew ethics 1983 40 Response upon receiving the Award oftheFondation Tocqueville 1984
On democracy 1988
Outline ofmy views of what matters 1988
itsgreat yet limited success 1991
A letter to my Russian readers1992
Tributetothe life and work ofFriedrich Hayek 47 Europe now exists 1993
Index
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About the author (2014)

Karl Popper (1902–94). Philosopher, born in Vienna. One of the most influential and controversial thinkers of the twentieth century.

Jeremy Shearmur is Reader in Philosophy at the Australian National University

Piers Norris Turner is Assistant Professor in Philosophy at The Ohio State University

Bibliographic information

TitleAfter The Open Society: Selected Social and Political Writings
Routledge Classics
AuthorKarl Popper
EditorsPiers Norris Turner, Jeremy Shearmur
PublisherRoutledge, 2014
ISBN1135627118, 9781135627119
Length528 pages
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