Table of Contents

Introduction; Judgements of Value; Knowledge and Value; The Quest for Absolute Values; The Negation of Valuation; Determinism and its Critics; Materialism; Dialectical Materialism; Philosophy of History; The Concept of Historical Individuality; Historicism; The Challenge of Scientism; Psychology and Thymology; Meaning and Use of the Study of History; The Epistemological Features of History; Philosophical Interpretations of History; Present-Day Trends and the Future.

About the Author

Ludwig von Mises (1881-1973) earned his doctorate in law and economics from the University of Vienna in 1906. In 1926, Mises founded the Austrian Institute for Business Cycle Research. From 1909 to 1934, he was an economist for the Vienna Chamber of Commerce. Before the Anschluss, in 1934 Mises left for Geneva, where he was a professor at the Graduate Institute of International Studies until 1940, when he emigrated to New York City. From 1948 to 1969, he was a visiting professor at New York University.