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Jason McKenzie Alexander (LSE): The Open Society as an Enemy
3 December 2013, 6:30 pm – 8:00 pm
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Tuesday 3 December; 18:30pm – 20:00pm
Philosophy@LSE
Speaker: Jason McKenzie Alexander (LSE)
Title: The Open Society as an Enemy
In 1945; Karl Popper published his defence of liberal democracy in The Open Society and Its Enemies. Now; more than seventy years later; we find ourselves living in a time when an unprecedented amount of information about our lives is made public; as well as held by private and governmental organisations. Jason McKenzie Alexander will argue that such openness and transparency; instead of supporting the foundations of liberal democracy; in fact undermines it.
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