Hayek is a living witness to the rise of both Communism and Fascism in Austria. In London he witnessed rise of Anglophone Progressivism.
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Hayek's attack on Radical Progressivism and Central Planning was almost taboo in WWII America. He had trouble finding a publisher
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Hayek's book was published at the highest tide of Radical Progressivism. It was the beginning of the backlash
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Hayek wrote a Road to Serfdom six years before Orwell wrote 1984. It's interesting to wead them together
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It seems that most Austrian Liberals share an epistemology that I do not. They want to reason from first principles, like Descartes
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Hayek is interesting in that he ends up rebutting rationalism/first principles from a rationalist/first principles basis.
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where does that leave him? I prefer Historical Extrapolation as a method of truth seeking
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After he won the ECP debate and everyone refused to admit it, he went into neuroscience for a while
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But I think he invented postmodernism 20 years early, p. much. That's part of why Foucault became interested in him.
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