Popper, Hayek and the open society [
Compares Karl Popper and Friedrich Hayek systematically and critically assessing their contribution to the political philosophy of the Open Society
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Abingdon, Oxon, UK :
Routledge ,
c2009
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| Series: | Routledge frontiers of political economy
112 |
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| Online Access: | NetLibrary |
Table of 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.