The open society as an enemy a critique of how free societies turned against themselves
Nearly 80 years ago, Karl Popper gave a spirited philosophical defence of the Open Society in his two-volume work, The Open Society and Its Enemies. In this book, J. McKenzie Alexander argues that a new defence is urgently needed because, in the decades since the end of the Cold War, many of the val...
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London :
LSE Press
2024.
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009874532606719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction
- Part I. Don’t come around here no more : the cosmopolitan conception of the Open Society
- 1. Consider the wall
- 2. You should have picked different parents
- 3. The room where it happens
- 4. Go your own way
- 5. It’s the economy, stupid
- 6. Nowhere, man
- 7. Concluding remarks
- Part II. The panopticon of the soul : the transparent conception of the Open Society
- 8. The book of life
- 9. Unwanted inferences
- 10. Lifting the veil
- 11. Letting it all hang out
- 12. Don’t you forget about me
- 13. Returning to the past
- 14. We’ll be watching you
- 15. Concluding remarks
- Part III. Safe spaces: the Enlightenment conception of the Open Society
- 16. Generation Wuss?
- 17. Trigger warnings
- 18. Safe spaces
- 19. No-platforming
- 20. Concluding remarks
- Part IV. Modern tribes : the communitarian conception of the Open Society
- 21. Joshua’s question
- 22. On polarisation
- 23. Social identity, in-group bias, and norms
- 24. The psychology of modern tribes
- 25. Authenticity and the WINOs
- 26. Intersectionality
- 27. Epistemic closure and extreme groups
- 28. The collision of horizons
- 29. Concluding remarks
- We can work it out.
