The Open Society and Its Enemies By: Karl Popper

Author: Karl Popper
Narrated by: Liam Gerrard

One of the most important books of the twentieth century, Karl Popper’s The Open Society and Its Enemies is an uncompromising defense of liberal democracy and a powerful attack on the intellectual origins of totalitarianism. Popper was born in 1902 to a Viennese family of Jewish origin. He taught in Austria until 1937, when he emigrated to New Zealand in anticipation of the Nazi annexation of Austria the following year, and he settled in England in 1949. Before the annexation, Popper had written mainly about the philosophy of science, but from 1938 until the end of the Second World War he focused his energies on political philosophy, seeking to diagnose the intellectual origins of German and Soviet totalitarianism. The Open Society and Its Enemies was the result.

An immediate sensation when it was first published in two volumes in 1945, Popper’s monumental achievement has attained legendary status on both the Left and Right and is credited with inspiring anticommunist dissidents during the Cold War. Arguing that the spirit of free, critical inquiry that governs scientific investigation should also apply to politics, Popper traces the roots of an opposite, authoritarian tendency to a tradition represented by Plato, Marx, and Hegel.

9.6M	00. Prefaces + Introduction.mp3
4.3M	01. Historicism and the Myth of Destiny.mp3
9.1M	02. Heraclitus.mp3
22M	03. Plato's Theory of Forms or Ideas.mp3
28M	04. Change and Rest.mp3
36M	05. Nature and Convention.mp3
42M	06. Totalitarian Justice.mp3
22M	07. The Principle of Leadership.mp3
23M	08. The Philosopher King.mp3
15M	09. Aestheticism, Perfectionism, Utopianism.mp3
69M	10. The Open Society and Its Enemies.mp3
32M	11. The Aristotelian Roots of Hegelianism.mp3
67M	12. Hegel and the New Tribalism.mp3
9.5M	13. Marx's Sociological Determinism.mp3
13M	14. The Autonomy of Sociology.mp3
13M	15. Economic Historicism.mp3
7.6M	16. The Classes.mp3
20M	17. The Legal and the Social System.mp3
13M	18. The Coming of Socialism.mp3
23M	19. The Social Revolution.mp3
31M	20. Capitalism and Its Fate.mp3
7.0M	21. An Evaluation of the Prophecy.mp3
17M	22. The Moral Theory of Historicism.mp3
15M	23. The Sociology of Knowledge.mp3
43M	24. Oracular Philosophy and the Revolt against Reason.mp3
27M	25. Has History Any Meaning.mp3
34M	26. Addenda.mp3
641M	total