One of the most important books of the twentieth century, The Open Society and Its Enemies is an uncompromising defense of liberal democracy and a powerful attack on the intellectual origins of totalitarianism. An immediate sensation when it was first published, Karl Popper’s monumental achievement has attained legendary status on both the Left and Right. Tracing the roots of a...
One of the most important books of the twentieth century, The Open Society and Its Enemies is an uncompromising defense of liberal democracy and a powerful attack on the intellectual origins of totalitarianism. An immediate sensation when it was first published, Karl Popper’s monumental achievement has attained legendary status on both the Left and Right. Tracing the roots of an authoritarian tradition represented by Plato, Marx, and Hegel, Popper argues that the spirit of free, critical inquiry that governs scientific investigation should also apply to politics. In a new foreword, George Soros, who was a student of Popper, describes the “revelation” of first reading the book and how it helped inspire his philanthropic Open Society Foundations.
【按语:上卷的一个浮光掠影;附加下卷结尾部分。 《开放社会及其敌人(The open society and its enemies)》或许是一本古怪的书:一方面,你会讶异于Popper在知识上广博的跨度,他了解当代神学家Karl Barth的神学思想,分析了哲学家Whitehead的思想,对历史学家Tonybee的《...
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0 有用 赵淫楠 2025-02-19 01:33:22 湖北
有老版的话倒是没必要买新版。