Popper's Open Society After Fifty Years

by Ian C. Jarvie (Editor), Sandra Pralong (Editor)

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 Remembering its Publication Fifty Years Ago'.

Genres: Philosophy

240 pages, Paperback

First published October 31, 1998

About the author

also published as: Ian Jarvie; I.C. Jarvie
full name: Ian Charles Jarvie

Reviews

[Per Kraulis · Rating 3 out of 5]

A rather uneven collection of papers, some contributions highly interesting, others less so. The preface (new in this edition) by the editors, and the contributions by Ian Jarvie (the ideas of open and closed societies as ideal types), John Hall (the sociological deficit of The Open Society) and Bryan Magee (the uses of Popper for a practical politician) are the most interesting. The paper by Joseph Agassi (The notions of the modern nation-state: Popper and nationalism) was tantalizing, but was ultimately unsatisfactory.