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Ortega y Gasset and the Austrian Economists: A Missed Encounter

In: The Emergence of a Tradition: Essays in Honor of Jesús Huerta de Soto, Volume II

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  • Lorenzo Infantino

    (LUISS Guido Carli)

Abstract

There is an unwritten page in the history of ideas, because the main actors, who might have usefully come into contact with each other, did not. Due to the many accidents of life, they were unable to take each other’s works into consideration. If this had happened, today we would have at our disposal a more extensive basis of knowledge on which to work. What I am referring to is the encounter which never took place between José Ortega y Gasset and Carl Menger (and the first exponents of the Austrian School of Economics). They clearly showed hostility toward contractualist theories of society and their ‘false individualism’. Ortega and the ‘Austrians’ analyzed social phenomena through the lens of cultural evolution and were in search of a “true individualism.” They recognized how limited the forces of the individual are and how strong the necessity is to channel the knowledge and the resources of each into a grand social (atheleological) process.

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  • Lorenzo Infantino, 2023. "Ortega y Gasset and the Austrian Economists: A Missed Encounter," Springer Books, in: David Howden & Philipp Bagus (ed.), The Emergence of a Tradition: Essays in Honor of Jesús Huerta de Soto, Volume II, pages 157-165, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:sprchp:978-3-031-17418-6_14
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-17418-6_14
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