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The Open Society and Its Enemies, Volume 1: The Spell of Plato

Karl R. Popper · George Routledge & Sons · 1945

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Karl R. Popper
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2026-09-01
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Open Library work page (all editions of both volumes). Popper's reading of the Republic is summarised and discussed in Eric Brown's SEP entry, section 4.4.

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DisputedKarl Popper's The Open Society and Its Enemies (1945) famously charged that the Republic's ideal city is totalitarian; others, such as Gregory Vlastos, reject that reading, and scholars still debate which features of Kallipolis are totalitarian and why.