Open Society Unresolved : : The Contemporary Relevance of a Contested Idea.

• Author: Royer, Christof.
• TeilnehmendeR: Matei, Liviu.
• Place / Publishing House: Budapest : : Central European University Press,, 2023.; Ã2023.
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (229 pages)

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Table of Contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• Introduction: Open Society Unresolved: Charting the Contested Terrain
• Part I Philosophical and Theoretical Perspectives on Open Society
• Chapter 1 Human Nature and the Open Society
• Chapter 2 In Praise of Coldness: The Open Neighborhood and Its Enemies
• Chapter 3 Against Identity: Individuality as the Foundation of Open Society
• Chapter 4 Empirical Embodiment of Critical Rationalism: Deliberative Theory and Open Society
• Chapter 5 Open Society as an Achievement: Popper, Gaus, and the Liberal Tradition
• Chapter 6 Nozick's Meta-Utopia as an Open Society
• Chapter 7 Hannah Arendt and Literary Pedagogy
• Chapter 8 Can Bergson's Definition of Open Society Be Useful Today?
• Part II National and Regional Perspectives on Open Society
• Chapter 9 The Gender of Illiberalism: New Transnational Alliances against Open Societies in Central and Eastern Europe
• Chapter 10 Open Society Contested: Liberal Universalism versus Autocratic Functionalism in Hong Kong
• Chapter 11 "Sorosoids": Uses of Labeling in Bulgaria
• Chapter 12 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
• Chapter 13 Imagining the Future of Intelligence in Open Societies: Venturing beyond Secrecy and Scientific Prophecy as Totalitarian Modes of Modernity
• Chapter 14 Open Society in Crisis: Making Sense of Public Health and Expert Advice during Covid-19
• List of Contributors
• Index
• Back cover.