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"The studies of which this book is the result have from the beginning been guided by and in the end confirmed the somewhat old-fashioned conviction of the author that it is human ideas which govern the development of human affairs," Hayek wrote in his notes in 1940. Indeed, Studies on the Abuse and Decline of Reason remains Hayek’s greatest unfinished work and is here presented for the first time under the expert editorship of Bruce Caldwell.

In the book, Hayek argues that the abuse and decline of reason was caused by hubris, by man’s pride in his ability to reason, which in Hayek’s mind had been heightened by the rapid advance and multitudinous successes of the natural sciences, and the attempt to apply natural science methods in the social sciences.

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Correspondence, Methodology, Influence, Social sciences, Saint-Simonianism, Philosophy, Economics, epistemology, scientism, Social sciences, philosophy, Saint-simon, henri, comte de, 1760-1825, Comte, auguste, 1798-1857, Hayek, friedrich a. von (friedrich august), 1899-1992, Social sciences, methodology, Socialism
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Auguste Comte (1798-1857), Henri Saint-Simon comte de (1760-1825), Friedrich A. von Hayek (1899-1992)

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Table of Contents

Editorial Foreword.
Introduction.
Prelude Individualism: True and False
Part 1: Scientism and the Study of Society
1. The Influence of the Natural Sciences on the Social Sciences
2. The Problem and the Method of the Natural Sciences
3. The Subjective Character of the Data of the Social Sciences
4. The Individualist and ‘Compositive’ Method of the Social Sciences
5. The Objectivism of the Scientistic Approach
6. The Collectivism of the Scientistic Approach
7. The Historicism of the Scientistic Approach
8. ‘Purposive’ Social Formations
9. ‘Conscious’ Direction and the Growth of Reason
10. Engineers and Planners
Part 2: The Counter-Revolution of Science
11. The Source of the Scientistic Hubris: L’Ecole Polytechnique
12. The "Accoucheur d’Idées": Henri de Saint- Simon
13. Social Physics: Saint- Simon and Comte
14. The Religion of the Engineers: Enfantin and the Saint- Simonians
15. Saint- Simonian Infl uence
16. Sociology: Comte and His Successors
Part 3: Comte and Hegel
17. Comte and Hegel
Appendix: Related Documents Some Notes on Propaganda in Germany (1939).
Selected Correspondence, F. A. Hayek to Fritz Machlup (1940– 41).
Preface to the U. S. Edition (1952). Preface to the German Edition (1959).
Acknowledgments.
Index.

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Series
The Collected Works of F.A. Hayek, vol 13

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H61.H33664 2010, H61 .H33664 2010

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Bruce Caldwell

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Hardcover
Number of pages
334

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OL27993027M
ISBN 10
0415573831
ISBN 13
9780415573832
LCCN
2010002251
OCLC/WorldCat
644276422
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11063406

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