The Open Society and Its Enemies

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CONTENTS
Foreword ● George Soros
Introduction ● Alan Ryan
‘Personal Recollections of the Publication of The Open Society’ ● E. H. Gombrich
Acknowledgements
Preface to the 1st Edition
Preface to the 2nd Edition
Author\'s Introduction
Vol. I The Spell of Plato
The Myth of Origin and Destiny
	1 Historicism and the Myth of Destiny
	2 Heraclitus
	3 Plato’s Theory of Forms or Ideas
Plato’s Descriptive Sociology
	4 Change and Rest
	5 Nature and Convention
Plato’s Political Programme
	6 Totalitarian Justice
	7 The Principle of Leadership
	8 The Philosopher King
	9 Aestheticism, Perfectionism, Utopianism
The Background of Plato’s Attack
	10 The Open Society and Its Enemies
Addenda (1957, 1961, 1965)
Vol. II The High Tide of Prophecy: 
Hegel, Marx, and the Aftermath
The Rise of Oracular Philosophy
	11 The Aristotelian Roots of Hegelianism
	12 Hegel and the New Tribalism
Marx’s Method
	13 Marx’s Sociological Determinism
	14 The Autonomy of Sociology
	15 Economic Historicism
	16 The Classes
	17 The Legal and the Social System
Marx’s Prophecy
	18 The Coming of Socialism
	19 The Social Revolution
	20 Capitalism and Its Fate
	21 An Evaluation of the Prophecy
Marx’s Ethics
	22 The Moral Theory of Historicism
The Aftermath
	23 The Sociology of Knowledge
	24 Oracular Philosophy and the Revolt against Reason
Conclusion
	25 Has History Any Meaning?
Addenda (1961, 1965)
Notes
Notes to Vol. I
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Notes to Vol. II
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Index