Studies on the Abuse and Decline of Reason

Bruce Caldwell is Professor of Economics at the University of North Carolina, Greensboro

• Editorial Foreword. Introduction. Prelude Individualism: True and False Part 1: Scientism and the Study of Society 1. The Infl uence 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 2: The Counter-Revolution of Science 11. The Source of the Scientistic Hubris: L’Ecole 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 Infl uence 16. Sociology: Comte and His Successors Part 3: Comte and Hegel 17. Comte and Hegel Appendix: Related Documents Some Notes on Propaganda in Germany (1939). Selected Correspondence, F. A. Hayek to Fritz Machlup (1940– 41). Preface to the U. S. Edition (1952). Preface to the German Edition (1959). Acknowledgments. Index.