The Counter-Revolution of Science

Studies on the Abuse of Reason

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Autor(en)	Friedrich August von Hayek	Verlag	Liberty Fund, Inc.
Sachgebiet(e)	Klassischer Liberalismus, English Books	ISBN	978-0-913966-67-9
1980, 415 Seiten, Broschur

Early in the last century the successes of science led a group of French thinkers to apply the principles of science to the study of society. These thinkers purported to have discovered the supposed "laws" of society and concluded that an elite of social scientists should assume direct control of social life.

The Counter-Revolution of Science is Nobel Laureate Friedrich Hayek's forceful attack on this abuse of reason.

Source: Liberty Fund, Inc.

Table of Contents

Preface to the German Edition (1959)
Preface to the U. S. Edition (1952)

Part One: Scientism and the Study of Society
1 The Influence of the Natural Sciences on the Social Sciences
2 The Problem and the Method of the Natural Sciences
3 The Subjective Character of the Data of the Social Sciences
4 The Individualist and “Compositive” Method of the Social Sciences
5 The Objectivism of the Scientistic Approach
6 The Collectivism of the Scientistic Approach
7 The Historicism of the Scientistic Approach
8 “Purposive” Social Formations
9 “Conscious” Direction and the Growth of Reason
10 Engineers and Planners

Part Two: The Counter-Revolution of Science
11 The Source of the Scientistic Hubris: L’École Polytechnique
12 The “Accoucheur d’Idées”: Henri de Saint-Simon
13 Social Physics: Saint-Simon and Comte
14 The Religion of the Engineers: Enfantin and the Saint-Simonians
15 Saint-Simonian Influence
16 Sociology: Comte and His Successors

Part Three: Comte and Hegel
17 Comte and Hegel 

Index