Rethinking Open Society
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Rethinking Open Society

  1. 310 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Rethinking Open Society

About this book

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.

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Yes, you can access Rethinking Open Society by Michael Ignatieff, Stefan Roch, Michael Ignatieff,Stefan Roch in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Politics & International Relations & Education Theory & Practice. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright page
  4. Table of Contents
  5. Acknowledgments
  6. Introduction by Michael Ignatieff
  7. I. The Open Society Ideal: For and Against
  8. II. Open Society in Practice: Democracy, Rule of Law, Free Speech and Secularism
  9. III. Open Society in 21st Century Geopolitics
  10. IV. Open Society’s New Enemies: The Authoritarian Competitors
  11. V. From Transition to Backsliding: Did Open Societies Fail?
  12. Conclusions: The Future of the Open Society Ideal (Michael Ignatieff)
  13. About the Contributors
  14. Index
  15. Back cover