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Studies on the abuse and decline of reason : text and documents

Title
Studies on the abuse and decline of reason : text and documents / edited by Bruce Caldwell.
Author
Hayek, Friedrich A. von (Friedrich August), 1899-1992
Publication
Chicago : University of Chicago Press, c2010.

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Description
x, 331 p.; 24 cm.
Series Statement
  • Collected works of F. A. Hayek ; v. 13
  • Hayek, Friedrich A. von (Friedrich August), 1899-1992. Works. 1989 ; v. 13.
Uniform Title
Counter-revolution of science
Alternative Title
Counter-revolution of science
Subject
  • Saint-Simon, Henri, comte de, 1760-1825 > Influence
  • Comte, Auguste, 1798-1857 > Influence
  • Hayek, Friedrich A. von 1899-1992 > Correspondence
  • Social sciences > Methodology
  • Saint-Simonianism
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Prelude: Individualism: true and false -- Part One: Scientism and the study of society -- The influence of the natural sciences on the social sciences -- The problem and the method of the natural sciences -- The subjective character of the data of the social sciences -- The individualist and "compositive" method of the social sciences -- The objectivism of the scientistic approach -- The collectivism of the scientistic approach -- The historicism of the scientistic approach -- "Purposive" social formations -- "Conscious" direction and the growth of reason -- Engineers and planners -- Part Two: The counter-revolution of science -- The source of the scientistic hubris: l'Ecole polytechnique -- The "accoucheur d'idées": Henri de Saint-Simon -- Social physics: Saint-Simon and Comte -- The religion of the engineers: Enfantin and the Saint-Simonians -- Saint-simonian influence -- Sociology: Comte and his successors -- Part Three: Comte and Hegel -- Comte and Hegel -- Appendix: Related documents -- Some notes on propaganda in Germany -- Selected correspondence, F.A. Hayek to Fritz Machlup (1940-41) -- Preface to the U. S. edition -- Preface to the German edition.
ISBN
  • 9780226321097 (alk. paper)
  • 0226321096 (alk. paper)
LCCN
2009024932
OCLC
  • ocn406946021
  • 406946021
  • SCSB-5523820
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries