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• Cover Page
• Half-Title Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• Foreword
• Preface: Karl Popper’s The Open Society and its Enemies in the Contemporary Global World’ by Václav Havel
• ‘Personal Recollections of the Publication of The Open Society’ by E. H. Gombrich
• Acknowledgements
• Preface to the First Edition
• Preface to the Second Edition
• Introduction
• 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)
• Notes
• Notes to Volume I
• Notes to Volume II
• Index