Re: Hayek's Conception of Knowledge (was Re: HarryMagdoff on

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Charles Brown wrote,

> (This radical privileging of tacit & partial
> knowledge dispersed among individuals over explicit & collective
> knowledge, as well as opposition to conscious planning, is a theme
> that later gets carried by postmodernists to its anti-scientific
> extreme.)

Yes! The term "radical privileging" is very important here. It is the
reactionary (and undialectical) leap from disillusionment with the
imperfectability of reason to the uncritical embrace of ersatz
"authenticity". The same leap that caught Heidegger with his lederhosen
on.



Temps Walker
Sandwichman and Deconsultant