POPPER, Karl R.
The Open Society And Its Enemies.
Karl Popper’s The Open Society; Inscribed by Karl Popper to Lionel Robbins
London: Routledge & Kegan Paul LTD, 1952.
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Second editions of Popper's magnum opus, one of the most important books of the twentieth century. Octavo, 2 volumes, original black cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper in volume one, "To Lionel Robbins with kindest regards. February 6th 1952. K.R. Popper." Lionel Robbins (1898-1984) was an economist and prominent member of the economics department at the LSE. He and Popper were colleagues for over twenty years and formed a strong inter-departmental alliance, fortified by their mutual friendship with Friedrich von Hayek. In very good condition. Uncommon signed and inscribed.
One of the most important books of the twentieth century, Karl Popper's The Open Society and Its Enemies is an uncompromising defense of liberal democracy and a powerful attack on the intellectual origins of totalitarianism. Popper was born in 1902 to a Viennese family of Jewish origin. He taught in Austria until 1937, when he emigrated to New Zealand in anticipation of the Nazi annexation of Austria the following year, and he settled in England in 1949. Before the annexation, Popper had written mainly about the philosophy of science, but from 1938 until the end of the Second World War he focused his energies on political philosophy, seeking to diagnose the intellectual origins of German and Soviet totalitarianism. The Open Society and Its Enemies was the result. It was named by The Modern Library as one of the 100 greatest books of nonfiction of the twentieth century.
The Open Society And Its Enemies.
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