The Open Society and Its Enemies

Name: The Open Society and Its Enemies
Author: Karl Popper

by Karl Popper

Critique of totalitarianism and defense of open liberal democratic society

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Karl Popper

Austrian-British philosopher of science whose criterion of falsifiability—a theory is scientific only if it can be proven false—transformed the philosophy of science. The Open Society and Its Enemies was a powerful attack on totalitarianism and its philosophical roots in Plato and Marx. He was the most influential philosopher of science of the 20th century.

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