Studies on the abuse and decline of reason
Subtitle: text and documents
By: edited by bruce caldwell.
Series: Collected works of F. A. Hayek -- vol. 13
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780226321097
Subjects: 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
Genres: Correspondence
Work titles: Counter-revolution of science
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Prelude: Individualism: true and false; title: Part One: Scientism and the study of society; title: The influence of the natural sciences on the social sciences; title: The problem and the method of the natural sciences; title: The subjective character of the data of the social sciences; title: The individualist and "compositive" method of the social sciences; title: The objectivism of the scientistic approach; title: The collectivism of the scientistic approach; title: The historicism of the scientistic approach; title: "Purposive" social formations; title: "Conscious" direction and the growth of reason; title: Engineers and planners; title: Part Two: The counter-revolution of science; title: The source of the scientistic hubris: l'Ecole polytechnique; title: The "accoucheur d'idées": Henri de Saint-Simon; title: Social physics: Saint-Simon and Comte; title: The religion of the engineers: Enfantin and the Saint-Simonians; title: Saint-simonian influence; title: Sociology: Comte and his successors; title: Part Three: Comte and Hegel; title: Comte and Hegel; title: Appendix: Related documents; title: Some notes on propaganda in Germany; title: Selected correspondence, F.A. Hayek to Fritz Machlup (1940-41); title: Preface to the U. S. edition; title: Preface to the German edition.