British Idealist Studies, Series 1: Oakeshott – serie
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In Defence of Modernity
The Social Thought of Michael Oakeshott
Inbunden, 2003
792 kr
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Although Oakeshott's philosophy has received considerable attention, the vision which underlies it has been almost completely ignored. This vision, which is rooted in the intellectual debates of his epoch, cements his ideas into a coherent whole and provides a compelling defence of modernity. The …
Limits of Political Theory
Oakeshott's Philosophy of Civil Association
Inbunden, 2004
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This book examines Oakeshott's political philosophy within the context of his more general conception of philosophical understanding. The book stresses the underlying continuity of his major writings on the subject and takes seriously the implications of understanding the world in terms of …
Education and the Voice of Michael Oakeshott
Inbunden, 2007
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The work of Michael Oakeshott has retained a striking currency in philosophical discourse about education. This is hardly surprising in view of his influence on Paul Hirst and Richard Peters, two philosophers whose work had an enormous impact on educational thinking and practice in the …
Meanings of Michael Oakeshott's Conservatism
Av Corey Abel
Häftad, 2011
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This collection of recent scholarship on the thought of Michael Oakeshott includes essays by both distinguished and established authors as well as a fresh crop of younger talent. Together, they address the meanings of Oakeshott's conservatism through the lenses of his ideas on religion, history, …
Legendary Past
Michael Oakeshott on Imagination and Political Identity
Inbunden, 2014
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The book explores Oakeshott's thought on the key role human imagination plays in relation to the political. It addresses four main themes: imagination, foundational narratives, the question of political societies’ identities as well as that of human living-together, to use Hannah Arendt’s …
Place of Michael Oakeshott in Contemporary Western and Non-Western Thought
Häftad, 2017
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The continuing growth of worldwide interest in Michael Oakeshott's philosophy and political theory has recently (2016) been marked by the publication of two 'Companion to Oakeshott’ volumes. This event provides a welcome opportunity to explore the reasons for his influence both within the West and …
Michael Oakeshott as a Philosopher of the "Creative"
And Other Essays
Inbunden, 2019
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This book is a collection of eight (mostly) recent essays on the work of the 20th-century English philosophic essayist, Michael Oakeshott. Six of them advance the view in different ways that Oakeshott's multifarious lifework may be understood as variations on a singular insight — that the structure …
Sceptical Idealist
Michael Oakeshott as a Critic of the Enlightenment
Av Roy Tseng
Inbunden, 2003
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This is the first book-length study to provide a structured interpretation of the significance of Michael Oakeshott's critique of the Enlightenment. By seeing the thinker as a 'sceptical idealist’ posing a serious challenge to the intellectual positions informed by the Enlightenment, this book …
Intimations Pursued
The Voice of Practice in the Conversation of Michael Oakeshott
Inbunden, 2007
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In this book Andrew Sullivan examines Oakeshott's transition from his original emphasis on philosophy as providing what was ultimately satisfactory in experience to his later emphasis on practical life. This satisfaction is best achieved by a fusion of the modes of poetry and practice, leading the …
Oakeshott on History
Inbunden, 2003
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This book challenges the common view that Michael Oakeshott was mainly important as a political philosopher by offering the first comprehensive study of his ideas on history. It argues that Oakeshott's writings on the philosophy of history mark him out as the most successful of the philosophers who …
Michael Oakeshott on Hobbes
Av Ian Tregenza
Inbunden, 2003
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Michael Oakeshott is widely recognised to be one of the most original political philosophers of the twentieth century. He also developed a very influential interpretation of the ideas of the great seventeenth century philosopher Thomas Hobbes. While many commentators have noted the importance of …
Religious and Poetic Experience in the Thought of Michael Oakeshott
Inbunden, 2005
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Much of the scholarly attention attracted by Michael Oakeshott's writings has focused upon his philosophical characterisation of the relations that constitute moral association in the modern world. A less noticed, but equally significant, aspect of Oakeshott’s moral philosophy is his account of the …
From a Necessary Evil to an Art of Contingency
Michael Oakeshott's Conception of Political Activity
Inbunden, 2005
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This book presents a comprehensive study of Oakeshott's conception of political activity. The author first examines Oakeshott in the contexts of liberal, conservative and Idealist thought, and then presents a detailed interpretation of the change in his conception of politics in the context of …
Intellectual Legacy of Michael Oakeshott
Inbunden, 2005
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This volume brings together a diverse range of perspectives reflecting the international appeal and multi-disciplinary interest that Oakeshott now attracts. The essays offer a variety of approaches to Oakeshott's thought — testament to the abiding depth, originality, suggestiveness and complexity …
Michael Oakeshott, the Ancient Greeks, and the Philosophical Study of Politics
Av Eric S. Kos
Inbunden, 2008
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This book addresses a question fundamental for Oakeshott throughout his life, which is what we are doing when we read and discuss some memorable work in the history of political thought. The approach the book takes to Oakeshott's response to this question is of particular interest in that it …
Democratic Theory of Michael Oakeshott
Discourse, Contingency and the Politics of Conversation
Inbunden, 2009
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This book offers a description, explanation, and evaluation of Michael Oakeshott's democratic theory. He was not a democratic theorist as such, but as a twentieth-century English political theorist for whom liberal theory held deep importance, his thought often engaged democratic theory implicitly, …
Oakeshott on Rome and America
Inbunden, 2012
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The political systems of the Roman Republic were based almost entirely on tradition, "the way of the ancestors", rather than on a written constitution. While the founders of the American Republic looked to ancient Rome as a primary model for their enterprise, nevertheless, in line with the …
Oakeshott on Rome and America
Häftad, 2013
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The political systems of the Roman Republic were based almost entirely on tradition, "the way of the ancestors", rather than on a written constitution. While the founders of the American Republic looked to ancient Rome as a primary model for their enterprise, nevertheless, in line with the …
Place of Michael Oakeshott in Contemporary Western and Non-Western Thought
Inbunden, 2017
421 kr
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The continuing growth of worldwide interest in Michael Oakeshott's philosophy and political theory has recently (2016) been marked by the publication of two 'Companion to Oakeshott’ volumes. This event provides a welcome opportunity to explore the reasons for his influence both within the West and …
