An edition of Studies on the Abuse and Decline of Reason: Text and Documents
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Studies on the abuse and decline of reason
text and documents
by Friedrich A. von Hayek
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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, SocialismShowing 2 featured editions. View all 2 editions?
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Studies on the abuse and decline of reason: text and documents
2010, University of Chicago Press
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Studies on the Abuse and Decline of Reason: Text and Documents
2010, Routledge
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0415573831 9780415573832
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Table of Contents
{'level': 0, 'label': '', 'pagenum': '', 'title': 'Prelude: Individualism: true and false'}
{'level': 0, 'label': '', 'pagenum': '', 'title': 'Part One: Scientism and the study of society'}
{'level': 0, 'label': '', 'pagenum': '', 'title': 'The influence of the natural sciences on the social sciences'}
{'level': 0, 'label': '', 'pagenum': '', 'title': 'The problem and the method of the natural sciences'}
{'level': 0, 'label': '', 'pagenum': '', 'title': 'The subjective character of the data of the social sciences'}
{'level': 0, 'label': '', 'pagenum': '', 'title': 'The individualist and "compositive" method of the social sciences'}
{'level': 0, 'label': '', 'pagenum': '', 'title': 'The objectivism of the scientistic approach'}
{'level': 0, 'label': '', 'pagenum': '', 'title': 'The collectivism of the scientistic approach'}
{'level': 0, 'label': '', 'pagenum': '', 'title': 'The historicism of the scientistic approach'}
{'level': 0, 'label': '', 'pagenum': '', 'title': '"Purposive" social formations'}
{'level': 0, 'label': '', 'pagenum': '', 'title': '"Conscious" direction and the growth of reason'}
{'level': 0, 'label': '', 'pagenum': '', 'title': 'Engineers and planners'}
{'level': 0, 'label': '', 'pagenum': '', 'title': 'Part Two: The counter-revolution of science'}
{'level': 0, 'label': '', 'pagenum': '', 'title': "The source of the scientistic hubris: l'Ecole polytechnique"}
{'level': 0, 'label': '', 'pagenum': '', 'title': u'The "accoucheur d\'id\xe9es": Henri de Saint-Simon'}
{'level': 0, 'label': '', 'pagenum': '', 'title': 'Social physics: Saint-Simon and Comte'}
{'level': 0, 'label': '', 'pagenum': '', 'title': 'The religion of the engineers: Enfantin and the Saint-Simonians'}
{'level': 0, 'label': '', 'pagenum': '', 'title': 'Saint-simonian influence'}
{'level': 0, 'label': '', 'pagenum': '', 'title': 'Sociology: Comte and his successors'}
{'level': 0, 'label': '', 'pagenum': '', 'title': 'Part Three: Comte and Hegel'}
{'level': 0, 'label': '', 'pagenum': '', 'title': 'Comte and Hegel'}
{'level': 0, 'label': '', 'pagenum': '', 'title': 'Appendix: Related documents'}
{'level': 0, 'label': '', 'pagenum': '', 'title': 'Some notes on propaganda in Germany'}
{'level': 0, 'label': '', 'pagenum': '', 'title': 'Selected correspondence, F.A. Hayek to Fritz Machlup (1940-41)'}
{'level': 0, 'label': '', 'pagenum': '', 'title': 'Preface to the U. S. edition'}
{'level': 0, 'label': '', 'pagenum': '', 'title': 'Preface to the German edition.'}
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