Open Society Unresolved

Liviu Matei, Christof Royer (eds)

Title: Open Society Unresolved
Subtitle: The Contemporary Relevance of a Contested Idea
Editors: Liviu Matei; Christof Royer
Price: € 56,95 excl. VAT
ISBN: 9789633865897
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 228
Language: English
Publication date: 31 - 03 - 2023
Dimensions: 15.2 x 22.9 cm
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Discipline: Social and Political Sciences
Imprint: CEU Press
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Table of Contents

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Introduction: Open Society Unresolved: Charting the Contested Terrain
Christof Royer

PART I. Philosophical and Theoretical Perspectives on Open Society
Human Nature and the Open Society
Thom Scott-Phillip

In Praise of Coldness: The Open Neighborhood and its Enemies
Rachid Boutayeb

Against Identity: Individuality as the Foundation of Open Society
Gregory Lobo

Empirical Embodiment of Critical Rationalism: Deliberative Theory and Open Society
Gazela Pudar Draško and Predrag Krstić

Open Society as an Achievement: Popper, Gaus, and the Liberal Tradition
Piers Turner

Nozick’s Meta-Utopia as an Open Society
Avery Fox White

Hannah Arendt in the Literature Classroom
Andrea Timar

Can Bergson’s Definition of Open Society Be Useful Today?
Jean-Louis Fabiani

PART II. National and Regional Perspectives on Open Society
The Gender of Illiberalism: New Transnational Alliances against Open Societies in Central and Eastern Europe
Katalin Fábián

Open Society Contested: Liberal Universalism versus Autocratic Functionalism in Hong Kong
Kenneth Ka-Lok Chan

“Sorosoids”: Uses of Labeling in Bulgaria
Lyubomir Terziev

An African Background to the Open Society: Ikenga and Ofo Cultic Figures as Structural Representations of the Enterprising Spirit of the Igbo of Nigeria
Nwankwo Nwaeizeigwe

Imagining the Future of Intelligence in Open Societies: Venturing beyond Secrecy and Scientific Prophecy as Totalitarian Modes of Modernity
Anna Eva Grutza

Open Society in Crisis: Making Sense of Public Health and Expert Advice during COVID-19
Tarun Weeramanthri

List of Contributors
Index

Liviu Matei, Christof Royer (eds)

Open Society Unresolved

The Contemporary Relevance of a Contested Idea

Is the concept of open society still relevant in the 21st century? Do the current social, moral, and political realities call for a drastic revision of this concept? Here fifteen essays address real-world contemporary challenges to open society from a variety of perspectives. What unites the individual authors and chapters is an interest in open society’s continuing usefulness and relevance to address current problems. And what distinguishes them is a rich variety of geographical and cultural backgrounds, and a wide range of academic disciplines and traditions.

While focusing on probing the contemporary relevance of the concept, several chapters approach it historically. The book features a comprehensive introduction to the history and current ‘uses’ of the theory of open society. The authors link the concept to contemporary themes including education, Artificial Intelligence, cognitive science, African cosmology, colonialism, and feminism. The diversity of viewpoints in the analysis reflects a commitment to plurality that is at the heart of this book and of the idea of open society itself.

Editors

Liviu Matei

Liviu Matei is a Professor of Higher Education and Public Policy, and Head of the School of Education, Communication and Society at King’s College London.