NOTES for my Definitive review of *Hayek: A Life*
Imagine a "definitive" biography of Charles Darwin which failed to identify the problem Darwin worked on and the scientific, empirical, and philosophical background of that problem, and which failed to focus attention on.. 1/n

.. how Darwin solved that problem with an empirical problem and a contingent causal mechanism unlike anything our philosophical inheritance could imagine or anything that empirical science had ever seen before. 2/n

And this biography of Darwin focused instead on the pre-Darwinian idea of evolution -- instead of the Darwinian idea of natural selection -- and it obsessed on Darwin's political and moral interests rather than on Darwin's interest in science and explaining things. 3/n

This begins to suggest my frustration with the Caldwell and Klausinger biography of Hayek -- and I could add a number of other dimensions to parallel biography of Darwin which missed the core story of Darwin which makes Darwin of interest, and which focused on other things. 4/n