Early in the last century the successes of science led 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.
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Early in the last century the successes of science led 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.
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Good jacket. Hardcover with good dust-jacket. Heavy foxing to edges of text-block. Interior clean and binding solid. Ships from a smoke-free home. General wear to jacket.
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First edition of Hayek's critique of reason, written at the same time as The Road to Serfdom. Octavo, original cloth. Fine in a very good dust jacket. Signed by F.A. Hayek on the front free endpaper. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box made by the Harcourt Bindery. Rare and desirable signed. The Counter-Revolution of Science is divided into two parts. "The first part is an acute and abstract study of the essential differences in method required in the study of the physical sciences on the one hand and the social sciences on the other The second part of the book gives an amusing and enlightening account of the origin of ‘scientism' [in the 19th century]" (Hazlitt, 83). This work complements Hayek's classic work of the free market, The Road to Serfdom.