殷海光向來以自由主義者自居，不過，他的思想旅途，卻也曾面臨困惑難解的時候。尤其當社會主義思想在二十世紀中葉甚囂塵上，嚴重威脅自由民主體制之際，殷海光為之苦思無已，始終難求出路。 因緣際會，當殷海光讀到了海耶克的《到奴役之路》一書，猶如覓得一劑求答解惑的思想良方，甚感興奮，於是開始進行這部經典的翻譯工作，本書即是他的工作成果。 在本書中，殷海光的翻譯時有刪有易，大致不失本真。他就理解及聯想所至，添加許多「按語」。其按語幾乎成了本書的特色，因此書中還更換字體，和正文加以區別。殷海光的按語，不但見解獨到，而且妙趣橫生。此外，殷海光在部分章節之前寫了長短不一「譯者的話」。此外，本書最後附有胡適的一篇講詞──從《到奴役之路》說起，由此文也可看出當時臺灣自由主義發展的處境。 透過閱讀本書的正文、按語及附錄，不僅有助於我們對《到奴役之路》這部經典之作的初步理解，深化我們對自由主義的認知；更能對殷海光的思想轉折變遷，有進一步的認識。

Product Description An unimpeachable classic work in political philosophy, intellectual and cultural history, and economics, The Road to Serfdom has inspired and infuriated politicians, scholars, and general readers for half a century. Originally published in 1944—when Eleanor Roosevelt supported the efforts of Stalin, and Albert Einstein subscribed lock, stock, and barrel to the socialist program—The Road to Serfdom was seen as heretical for its passionate warning against the dangers of state control over the means of production. For F. A. Hayek, the collectivist idea of empowering government with increasing economic control would lead not to a utopia but to the horrors of Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy. First published by the University of Chicago Press on September 18, 1944, The Road to Serfdom garnered immediate, widespread attention. The first printing of 2,000 copies was exhausted instantly, and within six months more than 30,000 books were sold. In April 1945, Reader’s Digest published a condensed version of the book, and soon thereafter the Book-of-the-Month Club distributed this edition to more than 600,000 readers. A perennial best seller, the book has sold 400,000 copies in the United States alone and has been translated into more than twenty languages, along the way becoming one of the most important and influential books of the century. With this new edition, The Road to Serfdom takes its place in the series The Collected Works of F. A. Hayek. The volume includes a foreword by series editor and leading Hayek scholar Bruce Caldwell explaining the book's origins and publishing history and assessing common misinterpretations of Hayek's thought. Caldwell has also standardized and corrected Hayek's references and added helpful new explanatory notes. Supplemented with an appendix of related materials ranging from prepublication reports on the initial manuscript to forewords to earlier editions by John Chamberlain, Milton Friedman, and Hayek himself, this new edition of The Road to Serfdom will be the definitive version of Friedrich Hayek's enduring masterwork.