Filozofia polityczna Hansa-Hermanna Hoppego. Studium krytyczne (The Political Philosophy of Hans-Hermann Hoppe: A Critical Study) (Oficyna Wydawnicza, August 2024), a PhD dissertation by Norbert Slenzok, has recently been published (available only in Polish at present).
Abstract: The present book offers a critical examination of the political philosophy of Hans-Hermann Hoppe, a leading libertarian thinker. In addition to expounding upon Hoppe’s philosophy, we also engage in assessing its truth value. This evaluation involves reinterpreting, reformulating, or even rejecting Hoppe’s arguments when necessary to refine and defend his overarching system. Indeed, it is exactly the book’s main thesis that Hoppean philosophy constitutes a full-fledged system. As is shown, that system springs up from epistemological rationalism (apriorism) conceived along the lines of Kantian transcendentalism and pragmatism, as reconstructed and integrated with one another by Karl-Otto Apel’s transcendental pragmatics of language, the Erlangen constructivist school, and Austrian school praxeology. This epistemological position underpins Hoppe’s greatest intellectual achievement: his argumentation ethics, which aims to establish the ultimate grounding for libertarian justice theory, centered around self-ownership and original acquisition. With epistemology and ethics as its pillars, Hoppe’s system extends to the core domains of political theory: anarchy and the state, philosophy of history, questions of culture and civilization, and the practical problems of political strategy.
