Open Society and Its Enemies, Volume 1 The Spell of Plato

Name: Open Society and Its Enemies, Volume 1 The Spell of Plato
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ISBN: 9780691019680

ISBN-10: 0691019681

ISBN-13: 9780691019680

Edition: 5th 1967

Authors: Karl R. Popper

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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. TheOpen Society and Its Enemieswas the result. In the book, Popper condemned Plato, Marx, and Hegel as "holists" and "historicists"--a holist, according to Popper, believes that individuals are…

Book details

List price: $34.00
Edition: 5th
Copyright year: 1967
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Publication date: 2/21/1971
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 376
Size: 5.51" wide x 8.46" long x 1.06" tall
Weight: 1.188
Language: English

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