Road To Reaction
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Book: Acceptable
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Tanning and foxing
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In one of the most pointed intellectual rebuttals of the twentieth century, Road to Reaction mounts a rigorous and unrelenting assault on Friedrich Hayek's enormously influential The Road to Serfdom, dismantling its central arguments with surgical precision. Herman Finer, a distinguished political scientist and professor, contends that Hayek's libertarian vision — which warned that state intervention in economic life inevitably leads to totalitarianism — is not only historically unfounded but dangerously misleading, a prescription for social regression dressed in the language of freedom. Drawing on a commanding grasp of economic history, political theory, and the realities of democratic governance, Finer presents a passionate defence of the planned economy and the welfare state as the true guarantors of human liberty. Written with polemical fire and scholarly authority, the work stands as a landmark document in the contest of ideas that defined the post-war political landscape. Finer's style is combative and direct, refusing to grant Hayek's premises an inch, and his argument resonates with an urgency born from the catastrophic failures of laissez-faire economics in the preceding decades. For any reader seeking to understand the great ideological fault lines of modern democratic thought — between market fundamentalism and social democracy — this fierce and erudite tract remains as provocative and vital as the day it was written.
Author: Herman Finer
Format: Hardback
Genre: Politics & law
Condition remarks:
Book: Acceptable
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Tanning and foxing
Markings: Previous owner
Condition remarks: pages can have notes/underlining.
In one of the most pointed intellectual rebuttals of the twentieth century, Road to Reaction mounts a rigorous and unrelenting assault on Friedrich Hayek's enormously influential The Road to Serfdom, dismantling its central arguments with surgical precision. Herman Finer, a distinguished political scientist and professor, contends that Hayek's libertarian vision — which warned that state intervention in economic life inevitably leads to totalitarianism — is not only historically unfounded but dangerously misleading, a prescription for social regression dressed in the language of freedom. Drawing on a commanding grasp of economic history, political theory, and the realities of democratic governance, Finer presents a passionate defence of the planned economy and the welfare state as the true guarantors of human liberty. Written with polemical fire and scholarly authority, the work stands as a landmark document in the contest of ideas that defined the post-war political landscape. Finer's style is combative and direct, refusing to grant Hayek's premises an inch, and his argument resonates with an urgency born from the catastrophic failures of laissez-faire economics in the preceding decades. For any reader seeking to understand the great ideological fault lines of modern democratic thought — between market fundamentalism and social democracy — this fierce and erudite tract remains as provocative and vital as the day it was written.