The open society and its enemies: one-volume edition

Foreword / George Soros

Introduction / Alan Ryan

'Personal recollections of the publication of the Open society' / E. H. Gombrich

Acknowledgments

Preface to the first edition

Preface to the second edition

Author's introduction.

Volume one: The spell of Plato (The myth of origin and destiny [1. Historicism and the myth of destiny ; 2. Heraclitus ; 3. Plato's theory of forms or ideas] ; Plato's descriptive sociology [4. Change and rest ; 5. Nature and convention] ; Plato's political programme [6. Totalitarian justice ; 7. The principle of leadership ; 8. The philosopher king ; 9. Aestheticism, perfectionism, utopianism] ; The background of Plato's attack [10. The open society and its enemies] ; Addenda (1957, 1961, 1965))

Volume two: The high tide of prophecy (The rise of oracular philosophy [11. The Aristotelian roots of Hegelianism ; 12. Hegel and the new tribalism] ; Marx's method [13. Marx's sociological determinism ; 14. The autonomy of sociology ; 15. Economic historicism ; 16. The classes ; 17. The legal and the social system] ; Marx's prophecy [18. The coming of socialism ; 19. The social revolution ; 20. Capitalism and its fate ; 21. An evaluation of the prophecy] ; Marx's ethics [22. The moral theory of historicism] ; The aftermath [23. The sociology of knowledge ; 24. Oracular philosophy and the revolt against reason] ; Conclusion [25. Has history any meaning?] ; Addenda (1961, 1965))