HAYEK (Friedrich August von).
Individualism: True and False.
‘One of Hayek’s most wide-ranging essays’, based on a lecture delivered at University College Dublin on December 17, 1945, at which Hayek’s ‘newfound fame’ from the recent publication of The Road to Serfdom ‘drew an overflow crowd’ (Caldwell & Klausinger, Hayek: A Life, 1899-1950, p. 607). In the lecture, Hayek ‘contrasted a voluntaristic, spontaneous, undesigned order of freedom of the individual with a rationalistically designed and constructed system. ‘True’ was the undesigned individualism esteemed by Hume, Smith, Burke, Acton, and de Tocqueville; ‘false’ the individualism designed and promoted by the encyclopédistes, Jean Jacques Rousseau, and the Physiocrats’ (IESS).
Cody & Ostrem, P-5.
