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)