Epilogue: The Western Ideology Revisited

Abstract

An important aspect of politics and of the study of politics is how agendas are set and issues framed. What seems vitally important at one particular time can be of no interest at another. Politics and the study of politics are both subject to fashion, both in the issues that seem important and in the languages and conceptual frameworks we use to discuss them. We spend most of our lives immersed in our own times and it is very hard to stand outside them and look at them objectively, very hard to understand which of all the trends are likely to be the decisive ones, which of the many forks in the road will be the one taken. One of the features of the human condition which Hayek described so well is the limited knowledge we possess....