This paper discusses some of the most central ideas of Hayek’s thought. In his book Mercado y sociedad. La utopía política de Friedrich Hayek, Jorge Vergara questions the theoretical status of Hayek’s system of ideas, underlines its utopian nature and in so doing goes beyond the current ideological and economic reception of this author. This supposed utopian character of Hayek’s thought discerned by Vergara, suggests certain symmetry with Marx, in as much as both thinkers share the same epistemic outlook. The conception of reason and the subject – a non- constituted reason together with an interacting, non-constituted subject -, and the decisive importance both assign to the market system, are main features of that shared outlook. I question though the extent to which this epistemic symmetry may be projected onto politics. In this respect there is a substantive difference between Hayekian and twentieth century utopian thought.
García de la Huerta, M. (2017). Hayek/Marx: op-posed in simetry. Reflections on a Jorge Vergara’s book. Revista De Filosofía, 72, pp. 73–90. Retrieved from https://revistaterapiaocupacional.uchile.cl/index.php/RDF/article/view/47598
