Contributor
Jarvie, I. C. (Ian Charles), 1937-
Imprint:London ; New York : Routledge, 1999.
Descriptionx, 217 p. ; 24 cm.
Note:Revised papers presented at a conference held in 1995 at the Central European University, Prague in commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the publication of Karl Popper's The open society and its enemies.
Note:Personal recollections of the publication of The Open Society / E. H. Gombrich -- The future is open: a conversation with Sir Karl Popper / Adam J. Chmielewski, Karl R. Popper -- The Open Society and Its Enemies: authority, community, and bureaucracy / Mark A. Notturno -- Popper and Tarski / David Miller -- Popper's ideal types: open and closed, abstract and concrete societies / Ian Jarvie -- The sociological deficit of The Open Society, analyzed and remedied / John A. Hall -- A whiff of Hegel in The Open Society? / John Watkins -- The problem of objectivity in law and ethics / Christoph von Mettenheim -- Minima Moralia: is there an ethics of the open society? / Sandra Pralong -- What use is Popper to a practical politician? / Bryan Magee -- The Polish Church as an enemy of the open society: some reflections on post-communist social-political transformations in Central Europe / Andrzej Flis -- Life after liberalism / Adam J. Chmielewski -- The notion of the modern nation-state: Popper and nationalism / Joseph Agassi -- Is there causality in history? / Cyril Hoschl -- Matching Popperian theory to practice / Fred Eidlin.
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