Michael Oakeshott has long been recognized as one of the most important political philosophers of the twentieth century, but until now no single volume has been able to examine all the facets of his wide-ranging philosophy with sufficient depth, expertise, and authority. The essays collected here cover all aspects of Oakeshott’s thought, from his theory of knowledge and philosophies of history, religion, art, and education to his reflections on morality, politics, and law.
Aside from the editors, the contributors are Corey Abel, David Boucher, Elizabeth Corey, Robert Devigne, Timothy Fuller, Steven Gerencser, Robert Grant, Noel Malcolm, Kenneth McIntyre, Kenneth Minogue, Noël O’Sullivan, Geoffrey Thomas, and Martyn Thompson.
Author(s): Paul Franco, Leslie Marsh
Publisher: Penn State University Press
Year: 2012
Language: English
Pages: 355
City: University Park
Front Cover
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations
Introduction
Chapter 1: The Pursuit of Intimacy, or Rationalism in Love
PART I: The Conversation of Mankind
Chapter 2: The Victim of Thought: The Idealist Inheritance
Chapter 3: Philosophy and Its Moods: Oakeshott on the Practice of Philosophy
Chapter 4: Michael Oakeshott’s Philosophy of History
Chapter 5: Radical Temporality and the Modern Moral Imagination: Two Themes in the Thought of Michael Oakeshott
Chapter 6: The Religious Sensibility of Michael Oakeshott
Chapter 7: Whatever It Turns Out To Be: Oakeshott on Aesthetic Experience
Chapter 8: Un Début dans la Vie Humaine: Michael Oakeshott on Education
PART II: Political Philosophy
Chapter 9: Michael Oakeshott on the History of Political Thought
Chapter 10: Oakeshott and Hobbes
Chapter 11: The Fate of Rationalism in Oakeshott’s Thought
Chapter 12: Oakeshott and Hayek: Situating the Mind
Chapter 13: Oakeshott as Conservative
Chapter 14: Oakeshott on Civil Association
Chapter 15: Oakeshott on Law
Notes on Contributors
Index
Back Cover
