ABSTRACT
In this long-awaited volume, Jeremy Shearmur and Piers Norris Turner bring to light Popper's most important unpublished and uncollected writings from the time of The Open Society until his death in 1994.
After The Open Society: Selected Social and Political Writings reveals the development of Popper's political and philosophical thought during and after the Second World War, from his early socialism through to the radical humanitarianism of The Open Society. The papers in this collection, many of which are available here for the first time, demonstrate the clarity and pertinence of Popper's thinking on such topics as religion, history, Plato and Aristotle, while revealing a lifetime of unwavering political commitment.
After The Open Society illuminates the thought of one of the twentieth century's greatest philosophers and is essential reading for anyone interested in the recent course of philosophy, politics, history and society.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |2 pages
PART I INTRODUCTION
part |2 pages
PART II MEMORIES OF AUSTRIA
chapter |12 pages
Julius Kraft, 1898–1960 (1962)
chapter |6 pages
Memories of Otto Neurath (1973)
chapter |4 pages
Anti-Semitism in Austria: a letter to Friedrich Hayek (1969)
part |2 pages
PART III LECTURES FROM NEW ZEALAND
chapter |9 pages
Ideal and reality in society (1940)
chapter |10 pages
Moral man and immoral society (1940)
chapter |11 pages
Is there meaning in history? (1940)
part |2 pages
PART IV ON THE OPEN SOCIETY
chapter |24 pages
Correspondence with Carnap on Social Philosophy (1940–50)
chapter |3 pages
Letter to Fritz Hellin on The Open Society (1943)
chapter |1 pages
Letter to Alfred Braunthal on The Open Society (1943)
chapter |5 pages
Uniting the camp of humanitarianism (1943–47)
chapter |26 pages
Social institutions and personal responsibility (1947)
chapter |2 pages
Platonic holiday (1948)
chapter |12 pages
Response to de Vries (1952)
chapter |3 pages
On The Free Man’s Library (1956)
chapter |6 pages
Letters to Isaiah Berlin (1959 and 1989)
chapter |9 pages
Historical explanation: an interview (1962/1966)
chapter |10 pages
Plato (1968)
part |2 pages
PART V THE COLD WAR AND AFTER