The Open Society and Its Enemies - Karl Popper

Category: Misc. Non-fiction, Novel, Science
Language: English
Keywords: Philosophy Non-fiction Epistemology Science History Soc

Written by Karl Popper
Read by Liam Gerrard
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The Open Society and Its Enemies
New One-Volume Edition
By: Karl Popper
Narrated by: Liam Gerrard
Length: 23 hrs and 17 mins
Unabridged Audiobook
Release date: 12-19-19
Language: English
Publisher: Tantor Audio

Publisher’s Summary

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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