Engaging enemies : Hayek and the left

XII, 190 S.

Includes bibliographical references and index

Hayek and the left : a paradoxical claim?Hayek as a straw man -- A prophet in the wilderness -- Engaging enemies -- Rethinking Hayek -- The rise and fall of market socialism -- Ideologies : between simple essentialism and decentred accounts -- Contextual change and intellectual engagement -- The failures of statist socialism -- The limits of Keynesian solutions -- Political theory and the rise of the new right -- The revival of market socialism -- Earlier accounts of market socialism -- Miller's market socialism -- The significance of the revival -- Freedom in the market -- The return of radical pluralism -- Markets and community -- Conclusions : market socialism in retrospect -- Revisionism revised -- Plant's engagement with Hayek -- Social justice and end-states -- Procedural justice -- Negative liberty -- Plant and the equal value of freedom -- Socialist revisionism, new liberalism and new labour -- Waves of revisionism -- New liberalism and new labour -- Conclusions : a liberalisation of socialism -- A new kind of knowledge : social movements and pluralism -- Preludes to Wainwright's engagement -- The libertarian impulse in eastern europe -- Against the all-knowing state -- Knowledge and planning -- From tacit to social knowledge -- From social knowledge to social movements -- The challenges of institutionalising social movements -- Social movements and the revival of pluralism -- Rethinking the all-knowing state -- From class to movements -- Post-socialism -- Reviving pluralism -- Globalisation and British political thought -- Conclusions : the rediscovery of political pluralism -- comrade Hayek or the revival of liberalism -- The 1970s and 1980s : crisis, landslide and hegemony -- two sides to Hayek -- Gamble's intellectual discovery of Hayek -- Context and intellectual change -- Engaging on liberal terrain -- The limits of knowledge -- Markets and entrepreneurs -- The role of government and organizations -- The limits of engagement -- The iron cage of liberty : Hayek, Weber and modernity -- A new liberal defence -- Conclusions : the dominance and division of liberalism -- Responses to the new right : the significance of the engagement -- The fate of socialism -- Markets and the decline of state paternalism -- The market, individual freedom and its consequences -- The search for a feasible alternative -- Fin de siècle : enemies and ideological change -- New and old ideological centuries -- Ideology and aversion : from enmity to enmities -- Labour and the market -- The making of new labour -- New labour in retrospect : the vulnerability of revisionism -- Conclusions: new centuries, hybrid ideologies.

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