# The Open Society and Its Enemies

> ## Foreword by George Soros

## Foreword by <George Soros>

## Introduction by <Alan Ryan>

## Personal recollections of the publication of the Open Society by <E. H. Gombrich>

## Acknowledgements

## Preface to the first edition

## Preface to the second edition

## Author's introduction

## Volume I: The spell of Plato

### The myth of origin and destiny

### Chapter 1. Historicism and the myth of destiny

### Chapter 2. Heraclitus

### Chapter 3. Plato's theory of forms or ideas

### Plato's descriptive sociology

### Chapter 4. Change and rest

### Chapter 5. Nature and convention

### Plato's political programme

### Chapter 6. Totalitarian justice

### Chapter 7. The principle of leadership

### Chapter 8. The philosopher king

### Chapter 9. Aestheticism, perfectionism, utopianism

### The background of Plato's attack

### Chapter 10. The open society and its enemies

### Addenda (1957, 1961, 1965)

## Volume II: The high tide of prophecy

### The rise of orcular philosophy

### Chapter 11. The Aristotelian roots of Hegelianism

### Chapter 12. Hegel and the new tribalism

### Marx's method

### Chapter 13. Marx's sociological determinism

### Chapter 14. The autonomy of sociology

### Chapter 15. Economic historicism

### Chapter 16. The classes

### Chapter 17. The legal and the social system

### Marx's prophecy

### Chapter 18. The coming of socialism

### Chapter 19. The social revolution

### Chapter 20. Capitalism and its fate

### Chapter 21. An evaluation of the prophecy

### Marx's ethics

### Chapter 22. The moral theory of historicism

### The aftermath

### Chapter 23. The sociology of knowledge

### Chapter 24. Oracular philosophy and the revolt against reason

### Conclusion

### Chapter 25. Has history any meaning?

### Addenda (1961, 1965)