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Engaging Enemies examines responses of the British left to Friedrich Hayek, one of the gurus of Thatcherism, and attempts to rethink socialism in response to neoliberalism.

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Simon Griffiths book illuminatingly and innovatively opens up the debate on Hayek. Hayek claimed to be a liberal, and his critics asserted that he was a conservative. Yet, as Griffiths intriguingly shows, Hayek s aversion to planning was absorbed in diverse ways by British left-wing intellectuals and political activists, who came toacknowledge the role that markets and spontaneity had to play. The result is a subtle and inventive study that explores the broad reach of Hayek s towering influence in his later years. Not least, one of its most important findings is to demonstrate the permeability of conventional ideological fault-lines. In so doing, Griffiths locates himself firmlyamidsta new generation of scholars who understand the intrinsic adaptability of political ideas.--Michael Freeden, is Professor of Political Ideology at the University of Nottingham

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Simon Griffiths is senior lecturer in politics at Goldsmiths University of London. He was previously a Visiting Research Fellow at the Centre for Political Ideologies in Oxford. He divides his time between academia and public policy and was formerly Senior Policy Advisor at the British Academy and Senior Research Fellow at the Social Market Foundation. He has written numerous policy reports and published journal articles in Contemporary Politics and Journal of Political Ideologies.

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