2021
DOI: 10.3917/redp.315.0035
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An Army of Fighters for Freedom. The social environment of the first Mont-Pèlerin Society conference

Abstract: Lors de la conférence qu’il donne à l’université de Stanford en 1944, Friedrich Hayek confesse vouloir lever « une armée de combattants pour la liberté ». Cette armée, il parvient à la mobiliser, quelque trois années plus tard, lors d’une conférence de dix jours dans les Alpes suisses, marquant la fondation de la Société du Mont-Pèlerin. A travers une exploration méthodique des usages adoptés par les participants et des prises de position exprimées lors des débats, cet article se propose de passer les troupes … Show more

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“…Nine years after the colloquium, in April 1947, Hayek was finally able to gather what he had called, at a lecture at Stanford University some three years earlier, “an army of fighters for freedom” (Innset 2021). His proposed name for the organization was “The Acton-Tocqueville Society” because he believed Lord Acton and Alexis de Tocqueville were the only thinkers to have properly understood Edmund Burke’s warnings against the dangers of democracy, and had therefore predicted the phenomenon of totalitarianism 6 .…”
Section: The Dual Argumentmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Nine years after the colloquium, in April 1947, Hayek was finally able to gather what he had called, at a lecture at Stanford University some three years earlier, “an army of fighters for freedom” (Innset 2021). His proposed name for the organization was “The Acton-Tocqueville Society” because he believed Lord Acton and Alexis de Tocqueville were the only thinkers to have properly understood Edmund Burke’s warnings against the dangers of democracy, and had therefore predicted the phenomenon of totalitarianism 6 .…”
Section: The Dual Argumentmentioning
confidence: 99%