Carl Schmitt had anticipated Hayek’s liberal-competition argument decades earlier

Evidence

Hayek (1960, 134). As with so much else in Hayek’s oeuvre, Carl Schmitt got there first: “Thus the political concept of battle in liberal thought becomes competition in the domain of economics and discussion in the intellectual realm” (2007, 71). — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, 2163

Categorization

• XREF: Deepens the Schmitt-Hayek parallel tracked across this notes section; connects to the reader’s interest in foundational neoliberalism historiography. — connects to: Hayekian theory lacked a theory of constitutional founding; Schmitt supplied the moment of decision. — Quinn Slobodian, Globalists: The End of Empire and the…, 706; Hayek drew his critique of liberal jurisprudence from Carl Schmitt, a Nazi jurist — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin: The Making…, 2143; Hayek’s political solution resembled Schmitt’s total state despite his liberal self-image — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin: The Making…, 2146 (+3 more)

Broader Connections

• Early neoliberalism crystallized partly in intellectual dialogue with Carl Schmitt’s anti-liberalism #expands (0.80) — Dieter Plehwe, Quinn Slobodian & Philip Mirowski (eds.), Nine Lives of Neoliberalism, 358
• Ordoliberals borrowed Schmitt’s diagnosis of the state but rejected his authoritarian conclusions #expands (0.75) — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, 577
• Neoliberalism’s double-truth doctrine originated in Hayek’s covert borrowing from Schmitt #qualifies (0.72) — Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste, 239