Leibniz, Lisbon, Löwith, and Blumenberg in the long quarrel over whether history has a direction. Optimism turns out to have a theology, or at least a disputed inheritance.
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Hayek's case for dispersed knowledge and the wager that human ingenuity outruns central control. Nobody is driving, which is either the achievement or the problem.
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