After The Open Society Selected Social and Political Writings [Paperback]

In this long-awaited volume, Jeremy Shearmur and Piers Norris Turner bring to light Popper's most important unpublished and uncollected writings from the time of The Open Society until his death in 1994.
After The Open Society: Selected Social and Political Writings reveals the development of Popper's political and philosophical thought during and after the Second World War, from his early socialism through to the radical humanitarianism of The Open Society. The papers in this collection, many of which are available here for the first time, demonstrate the clarity and pertinence of Popper's thinking on such topics as religion, history, Plato and Aristotle, while revealing a lifetime of unwavering political commitment.
After The Open Society illuminates the thought of one of the twentieth century's greatest philosophers and is essential reading for anyone interested in the recent course of philosophy, politics, history and society.

Editorial Introduction  I: Introduction  Optimist, Pessimist and Pragmatist Views of Scientific Knowledge (1963) II: Memories of Austria  1. Julius Kraft, 1898-1960 (1962)  2. Memories of Otto Neurath (1973)  3. Introduction to Fritz Kolb, Es kam ganz anders (It all turned out very differently) (1981)  4. Anti-Semitism in Austria: a letter to Friedrich Hayek (1969)  III: Lectures from New Zealand  5. Science and Religion (1940); appendix: Interview on Religion (1969/1994)  6. Ideal and rationality (1940)
7. Moral Man and Immoral Society (1940)  8. Is there a meaning in History? (1940)  IV: On The Open Society  9. Correspondence with Carnap on Social Philosophy (1940-7)
10. Letter to Fritz Hellin on The Open Society (1943)  11. Letter to Alfred Braunthal onlC%