# The Open Society and Its Enemies (1+2)

**Author(s):** Karl Popper
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**Genres:** philosophy, politics, sociology
**Publisher:** Routledge
**Published:** Sun Jan 01 2012 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
**Language:** en
**ISBN-13:** 9781283855471
**ISBN-10:** 128385547X
**ASIN:** 128385547X
**URL:** https://www.sagechimp.com/books/the-open-society-and-its-enemies-12

## Description

An open society provides its citizens with a mechanism for changing government; a closed society doesn't, forcing its citizens to rely on extra-legal revolution.  Popper analyzes the open-closed society debate using three exemplars of closed-society advocacy: Plato, Hegel (and wow, does Popper hate on Hegel), and Marx.  The main analytical viewpoints are historicist (backward-looking, utopian) motivations for closed societies and rational (forward-looking, empirical) motivations for open societies.

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**Themes:** Revolution