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Popper, Hayek and the open society /

Title
Popper, Hayek and the open society / Calvin Hayes.
Author
Hayes, Calvin.
Publication
London ; New York : Routledge, 2009.

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Description
xx, 284 p.; 24 cm.
Series Statement
Routledge frontiers of political economy ; 112
Uniform Title
Routledge frontiers of political economy ; 112.
Subject
  • Hayek, Friedrich A. von 1899-1992
  • Philosophy
  • Popper, Karl R. 1902-1994
  • Social sciences > Philosophy
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [262]-280) and index.
Contents
Pt. I. Popper, Hayek, modernity and ideology -- 1. Popper, Hayek and the grand narrative of modernity -- 2. Ideology, ideals and political philosophy -- pt. II. The epistemology/ethics enigma -- 3. Popper in the Weimar era (1919-1933) -- 4. The refutation of positivism and socialism -- 5. The Open Society and the road to The Road to serfdom -- pt. III. From epistemology and methodology to ethics and meta-ethics -- 6. Historicism, scientism and collectivism -- 7. Accentuating the negative : utility and rights -- 8. Is "liberal utopia" an oxymoron? -- pt. IV. The Achilles heel of the Popper-Hayek meta-theory -- 9. The Achilles heel : Max Weber's quasi-positivism -- 10. Relativism, scepticism and "the Enlightenment Project" -- 11. Evolutionary ethics, Darwinism and the naturalistic fallacy -- pt. V. Liberal individualism, the Enlightenment Project, justice and the Open Society -- 12. MacIntyre on virtue, tradition and reason -- 13. Whose justice? Which rationality? -- 14. Virtue, tradition, justice in the Enlightenment Project -- 15. Liberty, equality, modernity -- Epilogue : Marx, MacIntyre, modernity and the Lenin-Lennon dilemma.
ISBN
  • 9780415772891 (hb)
  • 0415772893 (hb)
  • 9780203889992 (eb)
  • 0203889991 (eb)
LCCN
2008014905
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library