03596nam a22005655i 4500 978-3-031-71186-2 DE-He213 20251030113306.0 cr nn 008mamaa 241110s2024 sz | s |||| 0|eng d 9783031711862 978-3-031-71186-2 10.1007/978-3-031-71186-2 doi Q174-175.3 B67 PDA bicssc SCI075000 bisacsh PDA thema Esfeld, Michael. author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut 87289 Restoring Science and the Rule of Law [electronic resource] / by Michael Esfeld, Cristian Lopez. 1st ed. 2024. Cham : Springer Nature Switzerland : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2024. VIII, 216 p. online resource. text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Palgrave Studies in Austrian Economics, 3005-0472 1. Introduction -- 2. Science vs. Scientism -- 3. How to Restore Science -- 4. The Rule of Law vs. Welfare Totalitarianism -- 5. How to Restore The Rule of Law. Science and the rule of law are the two pillars of modernity. Even though both result from the attempt to employ reason to limit the exercise of power in the scientific and the political sphere, they bear in themselves the germs of their own destruction: scientism and welfare totalitarianism. This book examines a trend towards a new, specifically postmodern totalitarianism, namely a regime of “actually existing postmodernism” that is based on the collusion of four elements: (i) scientism and its political use, (ii) intellectual postmodernism, (iii) welfare states, and (iv) crony capitalism. The book then shows a way out by utilising the philosophy of Descartes and Kant, the social-normative turn in the 20th century, and the resources of Austrian libertarianism from Hayek and Popper to Mises, Rothbard and Hoppe. These intellectual resources lay the ground for a New Enlightenment and an open society shaped by a free science and voluntary cooperation under the rule of law. Restoring Science and the Rule of Law is essential reading for philosophers of science and for political theorists interested in the foundations of the rule of law. Michael Esfeld is a full professor of philosophy of science at the University of Lausanne. Cristian Lopez is a postdoctoral researcher in philosophy of science at the University of Lausanne. Science Philosophy. 63307 Political science Philosophy. 57588 Economics. 58354 Philosophy of Science. 68560 Political Philosophy. 66964 Political Economy and Economic Systems. 70994 Lopez, Cristian. author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut 87290 SpringerLink (Online service) Springer Nature eBook Printed edition: 9783031711855 Printed edition: 9783031711879 Printed edition: 9783031711886 Palgrave Studies in Austrian Economics, 3005-0472 85863 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-71186-2 ZDB-2-REP ZDB-2-SXPR 64844 64844