Open Society Unresolved : The Contemporary Relevance of a Contested Idea

Open Society Unresolved The Contemporary Relevance of a Contested Idea

"Is the concept of open society still relevant in the 21st century? Do the current social, moral, and political realities call for a drastic revision of this concept? Here fifteen essays address real-world contemporary challenges to open society from a variety of perspectives. What unites the i...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Matei, Liviu (-)
Otros Autores: Royer, Christof
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Budapest : Central European University Press 2023.
Edición:1st ed
Materias:
Liberalism.
Social sciences > Philosophy.
Social structure.
Universalism.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / General.
Electronic books.
Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009726440306719
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: Open society unresolved : charting the contested terrain / Christof Royer
  • Human nature and the open society / Thom Scott-Phillips
  • In praise of coldness : the open neighborhood and its enemies / Rachid Boutayeb
  • Against identity : individuality as the foundation of open society / Gregory Lobo
  • Empirical embodiment of critical rationalism : deliberative theory and open society / Gazela Pudar Draško and Predrag Krstić
  • Open society as an achievement : Popper, Gaus, and the liberal tradition / Piers Norris Turner
  • Nozick's meta-Utopia as an open society / Avery Fox White
  • Hannah Arendt and literary pedagogy / Andrea Timár
  • Can Bergson's definition of open society be useful today? / Jean-Louis Fabiani
  • The gender of illiberalism : new transnational alliances against open societies in Central and Eastern Europe / Katalin Fábián
  • Open society contested : liberal universalism versus autocratic functionalism in Hong Kong / Kenneth Ka-Lok Chan
  • "Sorosoids" : uses of labeling in Bulgaria / Lubomir Terziev
  • An African background to the concept of open society : Ikenga and Ofo cultic figures as structural representations of the enterprising spirit of the Igbo of Nigeria / Nwankwo T. Nwaezeigwe
  • Imagining the future of intelligence in open societies : venturing beyond secrecy and scientific prophecy as totalitarian modes of modernity / Anna Eva Grutza
  • Open society in crisis : making sense of public health and expert advice during Covid-19 / Tarun Weeramanthri.

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