The Open Society and Its Enemies: The Spell of Plato (Volume 1)In Popper's words, this book "attempts to show that our civilization has not yet fully recovered from the shock of its birth the transition from the tribal or 'closed society', with its submission to magical forces, to the 'open society' which sets free the critical powers of man. It attempts to show that the shock of this transition is one of the factors that have made possible the rise of those reactionary movements which have tried, and still try,