Philosopher
Hans-Hermann Hoppe
Overview
Hans-Hermann Hoppe (; German: [ˈhɔpə]; born 2 September 1949) is a German-American academic associated with Austrian School economics, anarcho-capitalism, right-wing libertarianism, paleolibertarianism, and opposition to democracy. From 1986 until 2008 he was professor of economics at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV). He is a senior fellow of the Mises Institute think tank. In 2006 he emigrated to Turkey and founded the Property and Freedom Society.
Hoppe has written extensive criticisms of democracy, notably in his 2001 book Democracy: The God That Failed. The book favors exclusionary covenant communities that are "founded for the purpose of protecting family and kin". A section of the book favoring exclusion of democrats and homosexuals from society helped popularize Hoppe on the far-right. Some of the speakers invited at his Property and Freedom Society conferences in Turkey have been white nationalists.
Hoppe was a protégé of Murray Rothbard, who established him at UNLV, where Hoppe taught from 1986 to 2008. In 2004, a student's complaint about Hoppe's lecture comments regarding homosexuals and time preference led to an investigation and non-disciplinary letter to Hoppe by UNLV, which was subsequently withdrawn after a controversy over academic freedom.
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Philosophers who discussed Hans-Hermann Hoppe
Ideas Hans-Hermann Hoppe discusses
- Anarcho-capitalism
- Austrian school of economics
- Hedonism
- Transaction Publishers
- Springer Science+Business Media
- Immanuel Kant
- Private property
- Cato Institute
- Jürgen Habermas
- Philosophy and economics
- Tibor Machan
- Karl-Otto Apel
- Harvard University
- Murray Rothbard
- Non-aggression principle
- Frankfurt School
- Political philosophy
- Wayback Machine
- Journal of the History of Ideas
- Race (human categorization)
- Soviet Union
- German Americans
- Continental philosophy
- University of Michigan
Place in the tradition
Part of Discourse ethics.