Oakeshott saw Hayek’s anti-planning stance as itself a form of rationalism

Evidence

A plan to resist all planning may be better than its opposite,” he wrote of The Road to Serfdom, “but it belongs to the same style of politics.” … He told Hayek that he would be willing to accept membership in the Mont Pèlerin Society, but he never attended a meeting. — Angus Burgin, The Great Persuasion, 295

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to later critiques of neoliberalism as a rationalist project, and to the reader’s adjacent history project on the Mont Pèlerin milieu’s internal divisions. — connects to: Anti-planning epistemology was later weaponized as liberalism against totalitarianism — Dieter Plehwe, Quinn Slobodian & Philip Mirowski (eds.), Nine Lives of Neoliberalism, 74; Hayek’s critique targets epistemic arrogance, not state action per se — Mark Blyth, Austerity: The History of a Dangerous…, 255; Hayek located rationality in impersonal market processes, not individuals — Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste, 223

Broader Connections

• Hayek’s critique targets epistemic arrogance, not state action per se #complicates (0.80) — Mark Blyth, Austerity, 255
• Anti-planning epistemology was later weaponized as liberalism against totalitarianism #expands (0.75) — Dieter Plehwe, Quinn Slobodian & Philip Mirowski (eds.), Nine Lives of Neoliberalism, 74
• Hayek located rationality in impersonal market processes, not individuals #qualifies (0.75) — Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste, 223