A new edition of F. A. Hayek’s three-part opus Law, Legislation, and Liberty, collated in a single volume In this critical entry in the Collected Works of F. A. Hayek series, political philosopher Jeremy Shearmur collates Hayek’s three-part study of law and liberty and places Hayek’s writings in careful historical context. Incisive and unrestrained, Law, Legislation, and Liberty is Hayek at his late-life best, making it essential reading for understanding the philosopher’s politics and worldview. These three volumes constitute a scaling up of the framework offered in Hayek’s famed The Road to Serfdom. Volume 1, Rules and Order, espouses the virtues of classical liberalism; Volume 2, The Mirage of Social Justice, examines the societal forces that undermine liberalism and, with it, liberalism’s capacity to induce "spontaneous order"; and Volume 3, The Political Order of a Free People, proposes alternatives and interventions against emerging anti-liberal movements, including a rule of law that resides in stasis with personal freedom. Shearmur’s treatment of this challenging work—including an immersive new introduction, a conversion of Hayek’s copious endnotes to footnotes, corrections to Hayek’s references and quotations, and the provision of translations to material that Hayek cited only in languages other than English—lends it new importance and accessibility. Rendered anew for the next generations of scholars, this revision of Hayek’s Law, Legislation, and Liberty is sure to become the standard.

The Political Thought of Karl Popper offers a controversial treatment of Popper's ideas about politics, informed by Shearmur's personal knowledge of Popper together with research on unpublished material in the Popper archive at the Hoover Institute.
While sympathetic to Popper's overall approach, Shearmur offers criticism of some of his ideas and suggests that political conclusions should be drawn from Popper's ideas which differ from Popper's own views. Shearmur introduces Popper's political ideas by way of a discussion of their development, which draws upon archive material. He then offers a critical survey of some of the themes from his Open Society and Poverty of Historicism, and discusses the political significance of some of his later philosophical ideas. Wider themes within Popper's philosophy are drawn on to offer striking critical re-interpretations of his ethical ideas and social theory. The book concludes with a discussion which suggests that Popper's views should have been closer to classical liberalism than they in fact were.

This book offers a distinctive treatment of Hayek's ideas, as a research programme. It presents a detailed account of aspects of Hayek's intellectual development and of problems that arise within his work, and then offers some broad suggestions as to ways in which the programme initiated in his work might be developed further.

This text offers a controversial treatment of Popper's political ideas informed by the author's personal knowledge of Popper together with research on unpublished material in the Popper archive at the Hoover Institute. While sympathetic to Popper's overall approach, he offers criticism of some of his ideas and suggests that political conclusions should be drawn from Popper's ideas which differ from Popper's own views. In the text Popper's political ideas are introduced by way of a discussion of their development, which draws upon archive material. It also includes a critical survey of some of the themes from his "Open Society" and "Poverty of Historicism", and discusses the political significance of some of his later philosophical ideas. Wider themes within Popper's philosophy are drawn on to offer critical re-interpretations of his ethical ideas and social theory. The book concludes with a discussion which suggests that Popper's views should have been closer to classical liberalism than they in fact were.

This book offers a distinctive treatment of Hayek's ideas, as a "research programme". It presents a detailed account of aspects of Hayek's intellectual development and of problems that arise within his work, and then offers some broad suggestions as to ways in which the programme initiated in his work might be developed further.


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In this long-awaited volume, Jeremy Shearmur and Piers Norris Turner bring to light Popper's most important unpublished and uncollected writings from the time of The Open Society until his death in 1994.

After The Open Society: Selected Social and Political Writings reveals the development of Popper's political and philosophical thought during and after the Second World War, from his early socialism through to the radical humanitarianism of The Open Society. The papers in this collection, many of which are available here for the first time, demonstrate the clarity and pertinence of Popper's thinking on such topics as religion, history, Plato and Aristotle, while revealing a lifetime of unwavering political commitment.

After The Open Society illuminates the thought of one of the twentieth century's greatest philosophers and is essential reading for anyone interested in the recent course of philosophy, politics, history and society.

A new edition of F. A. Hayek's three-part opus Law, Legislation, and Liberty, collated in a single volume In this critical entry in the University of Chicago's Collected Works of F. A. Hayek series, political philosopher Jeremy Shearmur collates Hayek's three-part study of law and liberty and places Hayek's writings in careful historical context. Incisive and unrestrained, Law, Legislation, and Liberty is Hayek at his late-life best, making it essential reading for understanding the philosopher's politics and worldview. These three volumes constitute a scaling up of the framework offered in Hayek's famed The Road to Serfdom. Volume 1, Rules and Order, espouses the virtues of classical liberalism; Volume 2, The Mirage of Social Justice, examines the societal forces that undermine liberalism and, with it, liberalism's capacity to induce "spontaneous order"; and Volume 3, The Political Order of a Free People, proposes alternatives and interventions against emerging anti-liberal movements, including a rule of law that resides in stasis with personal freedom. Shearmur's treatment of this challenging work-including an immersive new introduction, a conversion of Hayek's copious endnotes to footnotes, corrections to Hayek's references and quotations, and the provision of translations to material that Hayek cited only in languages other than English-lends it new importance and accessibility. Rendered anew for the next generations of scholars, this revision of Hayek's Law, Legislation, and Liberty is sure to become the standard.

Karl Popper was one of the most influential philosophers of the twentieth century. His criticism of induction and his falsifiability criterion of demarcation between science and non-science were major contributions to the philosophy of science. Popper's broader philosophy of critical rationalism comprised a distinctive philosophy of social science and political theory. His critique of historicism and advocacy of the open society marked him out as a significant philosopher of freedom and reason. This book sets out the historical and intellectual contexts in which Popper worked, and offers an overview and diverse criticisms of his central ideas. The volume brings together contributors with expertise on Popper's work, including people personally associated with Popper (such as Jarvie, Miller, Musgrave, Petersen and Shearmur), specialists on the topics treated (Bradie, Godfrey-Smith and Jackson), and scholars with special interests in aspects of Popper's work (Andersson, Hacohen, Maxwell and Stokes).

Karl Popper was one of the most influential philosophers of the twentieth century. His criticism of induction and his falsifiability criterion of demarcation between science and non-science were major contributions to the philosophy of science. Popper's broader philosophy of critical rationalism comprised a distinctive philosophy of social science and political theory. His critique of historicism and advocacy of the open society marked him out as a significant philosopher of freedom and reason. This book sets out the historical and intellectual contexts in which Popper worked, and offers an overview and diverse criticisms of his central ideas. The volume brings together contributors with expertise on Popper's work, including people personally associated with Popper (such as Jarvie, Miller, Musgrave, Petersen and Shearmur), specialists on the topics treated (Bradie, Godfrey-Smith and Jackson), and scholars with special interests in aspects of Popper's work (Andersson, Hacohen, Maxwell and Stokes).

In this long-awaited volume, Jeremy Shearmur and Piers Norris Turner bring to light Popper's most important unpublished and uncollected writings from the time of The Open Society until his death in 1994.

After The Open Society: Selected Social and Political Writings reveals the development of Popper's political and philosophical thought during and after the Second World War, from his early socialism through to the radical humanitarianism of The Open Society. The papers in this collection, many of which are available here for the first time, demonstrate the clarity and pertinence of Popper's thinking on such topics as religion, history, Plato and Aristotle, while revealing a lifetime of unwavering political commitment.

After The Open Society illuminates the thought of one of the twentieth century's greatest philosophers and is essential reading for anyone interested in the recent course of philosophy, politics, history and society.

Table of Contents

Editorial Introduction I: Introduction Optimist, Pessimist and Pragmatist Views of Scientific Knowledge (1963) II: Memories of Austria 1. Julius Kraft, 1898-1960 (1962) 2. Memories of Otto Neurath (1973) 3. Introduction to Fritz Kolb, Es kam ganz anders (It all turned out very differently) (1981) 4. Anti-Semitism in Austria: a letter to Friedrich Hayek (1969) III: Lectures from New Zealand 5. Science and Religion (1940); appendix: Interview on Religion (1969/1994) 6. Ideal and rationality (1940)

7. Moral Man and Immoral Society (1940) 8. Is there a meaning in History? (1940) IV: On The Open Society 9. Correspondence with Carnap on Social Philosophy (1940-7)

10. Letter to Fritz Hellin on The Open Society (1943) 11. Letter to Alfred Braunthal on The Open Society (1943) 12. Uniting the Camp of Humanitarianism (1944-7) 13. Public and Private Values (1946?); Appendix 1: 'On the Treatment of Germany'; Appendix 2: 'Utopianism and the Open Society' 14. On the Theory of Totalitarianism (1946?) 15. Social Institutions and Personal Responsibility (1947) 16. The Open Society After Five Years etc: Prefaces to the American edition of The Open Society (1948-50) 17. Platonic Holiday (1948) 18. Response to de Vries (1952) 19. On The Free Man's Library (1956) 20. Letters to Isaiah Berlin (1959 and 1989) 21. Historical Explanation (1962/1966) 22. Correspondence with Ernst Badian on Aristotle's Politics (1965) 23. Plato (1968) V: The Cold War and After 24. The Open Society and the Democratic State (1963) 25. Popper to Hayek on the Abstract Society and ‘Inner Freedom’ (1964) 26. The Status of Science: A Broadcast to Russia (1963) 27. A Note on the Cold War (1966) 28. How to get out of Viet Nam (1968-9) 29. On For Conservatives Only (1970) 30. Was ist liberal? (What is it to be a liberal?) (1972) 31. On Reason and The Open Society (1972) 32. For a Better World (1973) 33. Historical Prophecy as an Obstacle to Peace (1973) 34. Letter to Bryan Magee on Nationalization (1974) 35. Preface to Italian Poverty of Historicism (1975) 36. On The New Liberty (undated) 37. On Toleration (1981) 38. The Importance of Critical Discussion (1981-2) 39. The Critical Attitude in Medicine (1983) 40. On Receiving the Fondation Tocqueville Prize (1984) 41. On Democracy (1988) 42. Outline of My Views (1988) 43. Historicism and the Soviet Union (1991) 44. The Open Society today (1991) 45. Letter to my Russian Readers (1992) 46. The communist road to self-enslavement (1992); Appendix: A Tribute to the Life and Work of Friedrich Hayek (1992, 1997) 47. Europe Now Exists (1993) 48. Against the Misuse of Television (1993)