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

Preface to the first edition

Preface to the second edition

Volume I: 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 II: 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)