| Sumario: | The writer endeavors to resolve the conundrums in relation to Friedrich Hayek by conducting a reexamination of his work. He reveals that Hayek's work has attracted contradictory epithets, and the paradox is reinforced by Hayek's own forceful rejection of dogmatic rationalism and all forms of intellectual and political eclecticism. In an effort to relate and resolve these conundrums, he considers Hayek's work in the light of the question of how to reconcile the decline of liberal capitalism, considered to be the freest and most efficient order conceivable, with an evolutionary discourse that precluded such a possibility. He demonstrates that both eclecticism and ideological closure are intrinsic to Hayek's unique mission to advance the cause of “progress” against the constant threat posed by collectivism.
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