5 Music and Freedom: A Polemical History

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Table of Contents XI
3. List of Tables XIII
4. Preface XV
5. I The Political Dimension
6. 1 Man of the Year 1
7. 2 Hungary and the Open Society 9
8. 3 Travel Notes of an Eastern European in America 13
9. II The Social-Intellectual Dimension
10. 4 The Strange (Re)Discovery of Corruption 23
11. 5 Music and Freedom: A Polemical History 43
12. 6 Democracy in a Non-Democratic Society 63
13. 7 Boors and Angels 73
14. 8 The Unity of Mankind and the Plurality of States 89
15. III The Legal Dimension
16. 9 Human Rights and Soverignty 129
17. 10 The Constitutional Honeymoon Is Over. The Paradoxes of Post- Communist Constitution Making 143
18. 11 Affordable Shame 163
19. IV The Economic Dimension
20. 12 Hidden in an Envelope: Gratitude Payments to Medical Doctors in Hungary 195
21. 13 What Could the West Have Done to Help the East? 215
22. 14 Financial Crises, Exchange Rate Arrangements, and the IMF. 237
23. V The Historical Dimension
24. 15 Medieval Central Europe: An Invention or a Discovery? 251
25. 16 The Marginality of Totalitarianism 265
26. 17 The-Self-Not-Fulfilling Prophecy 285
27. 18 Exile and Emigration. The Strange Survival of "German Culture" 301
28. 19 Giordano Bruno Nolanus: Authoritarian Sage and Martyr for Free Speech 321
29. VI The Philosophical Dimension
30. 20 Science and an Open Society: Is the Scientific Community a Genuinely Open One? 337
31. 21 Art History at the Crossroads 351
32. 22 Pornography and the Repressive Function 363
33. 23 Unexpected Consequences: Porfolio Screening and the Ethics of Trading 383
34. Biography of George Soros 407
35. Works of George Soros 409
36. George Soros' Philanthtropic Initiatives (including foundations and programs) 413
37. List of Contributors 419