Rethinking Open Society / / ed. by Stefan Roch, Michael Ignatieff.

• MitwirkendeR: Applebaum, Anne,; Ash, Timothy Garton,; Benner, Erica,; Bohle, Dorothee,; Christiano, Thomas,; Crane, Tim,; Ferguson, Niall,; Greskovits, Béla,; Ignatieff, Michael,; Kaplan, Robert D.,; Kis, János,; Krastev, Ivan,; Lilla, Mark,; MacMillan, Margaret,; Mungiu-Pippidi, Alina,; Müller, Jan-Werner,; Roch, Stefan,; Rosanvallon, Pierre,; Rupnik, Jacques,; Sajó, András,; Schwarzer, Daniela,; Scruton, Roger,; Walt, Stephen M.,
• HerausgeberIn: Ignatieff, Michael,; Roch, Stefan,
• Place / Publishing House: Budapest ;, New York : : Central European University Press, , [2018]; ©2018
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (366 p.)

The key values of the Open Society – freedom, justice, tolerance, democracy, and respect for knowledge – are increasingly under threat in today’s world. As an effort to uphold those values, this volume brings together some of the key political, social and economic thinkers of our time to re-examine the Open Society closely in terms of its history, its achievements and failures, and its future prospects. Based on the lecture series Rethinking Open Society, which took place between 2017 and 2018 at the Central European University, the volume is deeply embedded in the history and purpose of CEU, its Open Society mission, and its belief in educating skeptical, but passionate citizens.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- I. The Open Society Ideal: For and Against -- Open Society as an Oxymoron: A Conversation between Mark Lilla and Michael Ignatieff -- The Open Society from a Conservative Perspective -- Educating Skeptical but Passionate Citizens: The Open Society Ideal as a University Mission -- II. Open Society in Practice: Democracy, Rule of Law, Free Speech and Secularism -- Democracy Defended and Challenged -- Free Speech and the Defense of an Open Society -- Religion in the Open Society -- Constitutionalism in Closing Societies -- III. Open Society in 21st Century Geopolitics -- War and Open Society in the Twentieth Century -- Open Societies at Home and Abroad -- Eurasia, Europe, and the Question of U.S. Leadership -- The Open Society in a Networked World -- Germany and the Fate of Open Society -- IV. Open Society’s New Enemies: The Authoritarian Competitors -- The Puzzle of “Illiberal Democracy” -- How Can Populism Be Defeated? -- Beyond Demagoguery? The Contemporary Crisis of Political Communication -- Populism and Democracy in the Twenty-First Century -- The Enduring Appeal of the One-Party State -- V. From Transition to Backsliding: Did Open Societies Fail? -- After 1989: The Perennial Return of Central Europe Reflections on the Sources of the Illiberal Drift in Central Europe -- Perhapsburg: Reflections on the Fragility and Resilience of Europe -- Capitalism and Democracy in East Central Europe: A Sequence of Crises -- Civic Activism, Economic Nationalism, and Welfare for the Better Off: Pillars of Hungary’s Illiberal State -- Corruption: The Ultimate Frontier of Open Society -- Conclusions: The Future of the Open Society Ideal -- About the Contributors -- Index