Foreword / Introduction / Personal recollections of the publication of "The Open Society" / Preface to the first edition -- Preface to the second edition -- Author's introduction -- The spell of Plato ; Historicism and the myth of destiny -- Heraclitus -- Plato's theory of forms or ideas -- Change and rest -- Nature and convention -- Totalitarian justice -- The principle of leadership -- The philosopher king -- Aestheticism, perfectionism, utopianism -- The open society and its enemies -- Addenda (1957, 1961, 1965) -- The high tide of prophecy ; The Aristotelian roots of Hegelianism -- Hegel and the new tribalism -- Marx's sociological determinism -- The autonomy of sociology -- Economic historicism -- The classes -- The legal and the social system -- The coming of socialism ; The social revolution -- Capitalism and its fate -- An evaluation of the prophecy -- The moral theory of historicism -- The sociology of knowledge -- Oracular philosophy and the revolt against reason -- Has history any meaning? -- Addenda (1961, 1965).