Zur Technik der Bronchographie

Lorey, Alexander

doi:10.1055/s-0028-1126403

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“…152 This privatization of risk amounts to a government by precarization. 153 "Neoliberal governing proceeds primarily through social insecurity, through regulating the minimum of assurance while simultaneously increasing instability." 154 Analogously to Agamben's claim that we are all virtually homines sacri, the precarization of catallaxy implies that everyone is potentially malheureux.…”

Section: The Collateral Damage Of Spontaneous Ordermentioning

confidence: 99%

Hayek’s vicarious secularization of providential theology

Christiaens

2018

Philosophy & Social Criticism

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Friedrich Hayek’s defense of neoliberal free market capitalism hinges on the distinction between economies and catallaxies. The former are orders instituted via planning, whereas the latter are spontaneous competitive orders resulting from human action without human design. I argue that this distinction is based on an incomplete semantic history of “economy.” By looking at the meaning of “ oikonomia” in medieval providential theology as explained by Giorgio Agamben and Joseph Vogl, I argue how Hayek’s science of catallactics is itself a secularization of providential theology. This exposes Hayek to three criticisms: (1) he unjustifiably neglects the possibility of tendencies toward spontaneous disorder in free markets, (2) he condemns the “losers” of neoliberal competition to being providential waste on the road to general prosperity, and (3) he imposes on people the duty to consent to a neoliberal order that hinders them from cultivating their inoperativity.

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Section: The Collateral Damage Of Spontaneous Ordermentioning

confidence: 99%