Paperback, 809 pages
Spanish language
Published Feb. 7, 2006 by Paidós Ibérica.
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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.
Subjects
- Social Change
- Philosophy
- Sociology
- Spanish: Adult Nonfiction
- General
- Political
- Political Freedom & Security - General
- Sociology - General