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Subject(s)

• Social sciences—Methodology [Browse]
• Saint-Simon, Henri comte de 1760-1825—Influence [Browse]
• Saint-Simonianism [Browse]
• Comte, Auguste 1798-1857—Influence [Browse]
• Hayek, Friedrich A. von (Friedrich August) 1899-1992—Correspondence [Browse]

Series

• Hayek, Friedrich A. von (Friedrich August), 1899-1992. Works. 1989 ; v. 13. [More in this series]
• Collected works of F. A. Hayek ; v. 13

Bibliographic references

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.

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ISBN

• 9780226321097 (alk. paper)
• 0226321096 (alk. paper)

LCCN

2009024932

OCLC

406946021

RCP

C - S

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