Popper's Open Society After Fifty Years

The Continuing Relevance of Popper

Author: Ian Jarvie and Sandra Pralong

A coherent survey of the reception and influence of Karl Popper's masterpiece The Open Society and its Enemies over the fifty years since its publication in 1945.

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A coherent survey of the reception and influence of Karl Popper's masterpiece The Open Society and its Enemies over the fifty years since its publication in 1945.

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Popper's Open Society After Fifty Years presents a coherent survey of the reception and influence of Karl Popper's masterpiece The Open Society and its Enemies over the fifty years since its publication in 1945, as well as applying some of its principles to the context of modern Eastern Europe.
This unique volume contains papers by many of Popper's contemporaries and friends, including such luminaries as Ernst Gombrich, in his paper 'The Open Society and its Enemies: Remembering its Publication Fifty Years Ago'.

Critic Reviews

"The Prague conference on the fiftieth anniversary of the publication of "The Open Society and its Enemies was both intellectually challenging and emotionally stirring, It is appropriate that it should be commemorated."
-George Soros
"Karl Popper is surely the most celebrated of modern philosophers- literally. [This book] marks the fiftieth anniversary of his best known and most criticized work."
-"Philosophy of the Social Sciences
"The articles in the book make exciting reading...Readers who know Popper primarily through the philosophy of science will be especially enlightened as they read about this philosopher's concern with the very practical issues of politics and society."
-"Essays in Philosophy