Re: Where to get "The Road to Serfdom" (was About "rights" again)

From: Technotranscendence (neptune@mars.superlink.net)
Date: Sat Jan 18 2003 - 11:17:26 MST


On Saturday, January 18, 2003 8:26 AM Ron h. Dehede011@aol.com wrote:
> Thank you for the Hayek site. I have bookmarked
> it.

My pleasure. There are also links to Hayek papers online there.

> The PB copy of Road to Serfdom soon tore up
> and I am looking (in vain so far) for a hard
> backed copy to replace it.

It's beyond my ken how people tear up books. I generally keep mine in
good shape -- even though I have almost no intention of ever selling any
of them. I also rarely reread books, though sometimes I do use them for
reference.

> I find so much that relates to events around
> me that my copy will never be a collectors copy.

Hayek's book does, though, I must confess, I did not like it when I read
it. His style leaves a lot to be desired and I already knew many of his
arguments at that time. (I read it in my first year of college. I was
turned on to Objectivism and libertarianism in my junior year of high
school. For those of you outside the States, that's two years before
college.)

> BTW, have you heard the Sufi story that
> only one sufi ever reads a copy of a Sufi book

No. I could lie and say I have, but what would be the point?:)

> -- They read that one copy to death. That is how
> I am about my Road to Serfdom except that I
> have never gotten to the end of it.

Well, I don't believe all wisdom is contained in any one book -- or if
it is that book might be something like that infinite library in the
Borges story. However, I get your point.

Cheers!

Dan
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