A Companion To Michael Oakeshott

Author : Paul Franco,Leslie Marsh
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 481 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2015-06-26
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780271068473

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A Companion to Michael Oakeshott by Paul Franco,Leslie Marsh Pdf

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 : Efraim Podoksik
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 387 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2012-06-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521147927

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The Cambridge Companion to Oakeshott by Efraim Podoksik Pdf

A systematic and accessible presentation of the ideas of one of the leading British philosophers of the twentieth century.

Author : Michael Oakeshott
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2015-10-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781107113589

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Experience and its Modes by Michael Oakeshott Pdf

This book is Michael Oakeshott's discussion of the relationships between the most important perspectives from which we experience the world.

Author : Paul Franco,Leslie Marsh
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2015-06-26
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780271060170

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A Companion to Michael Oakeshott by Paul Franco,Leslie Marsh Pdf

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 : Corey Abel
Publisher : Andrews UK Limited
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2017-03-06
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781845406035

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The Meanings of Michael Oakeshott's Conservatism by Corey Abel Pdf

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, and tradition, and explore his relationships to philosophers ranging from Hume to Ryle, Cavell, and others. The collection assigns no single or final meaning to Oakeshott's conservatism, but finds in him a number of possibilities for thinking fruitfully about what conservatism might mean, when it is no longer considered as a doctrine, but as a habit or a turn of mind.

Author : Michael Joseph Oakeshott
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Social contract
ISBN : 0631159207

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Hobbes on Civil Association by Michael Joseph Oakeshott Pdf

Author : Paul Franco
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2004-01-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0300104049

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Michael Oakeshott by Paul Franco Pdf

In this book Paul Franco provides an authoritative introduction to the life and thought of Michael Oakeshott, one of the most important philosophical voices of the twentieth century. After sketching a brief biography of Oakeshott, Franco then examines his most distinctive ideas, including his early idealist theory of knowledge, his influential critique of rationalism and central social planning, and his liberal theory of civil association. Though best known as a political philosopher, Oakeshott also made significant contributions to the philosophy of history, aesthetics, the philosophy of religion, and the philosophy of education. Franco highlights Oakeshott’s impressive achievements in each of these areas. His book is an essential introduction to the whole range of Oakeshott’s thought, and it sets the philosopher’s work in historical context while also demonstrating its relevance to contemporary debates in political philosophy.

Author : Jens Meierhenrich,Martin Loughlin
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 715 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2021-08-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781316512135

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The Cambridge Companion to the Rule of Law by Jens Meierhenrich,Martin Loughlin Pdf

Introduces students, scholars, and practitioners to the theory and history of the rule of law.

Author : Guy Griffith,Michael Oakeshott
Publisher : Andrews UK Limited
Page : 109 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2017-06-15
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781845409456

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A Guide to the Classics by Guy Griffith,Michael Oakeshott Pdf

Originally written in 1936 by two young Cambridge Fellows, A Guide to the Classics is a light-hearted manual on how to pick the Derby winner. However, as the tongue-in-cheek title suggested, there is more to the book than meets the eye, especially as one of the young dons went on to become, according to his 1990 Telegraph obituary, 'the greatest political philosopher in the Anglo-Saxon tradition since Mill - or even Burke'. The book takes the abstraction out of the Derby by attacking the systems which had been developed by generations of 'form' experts. It exposes theoretical solutions as fraudulent – instead it applies hard-headed empirical and historical analysis. Oakeshott went on to apply this methodology to his famous critique of 'rationalism' in politics. This long-awaited edition of Griffith and Oakeshott's classic text includes a new preface and foreword by horse racing journalist and author Sean Magee, and political commentator Peter Oborne.

Author : Michael Oakeshott
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Education
ISBN : 0865973237

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The Voice of Liberal Learning by Michael Oakeshott Pdf

To those weary and wary of the cacophony about what's wrong with education in America and what ought to be done about it, Oakeshott's voice beckons. As usual, his approach to the subject is subtle, comprehensive, and radical -- in the sense of summoning readers to the root of the matter. That root, Oakeshott believed, is the very nature of learning itself and, concomitantly, the means (as distinct from the method) by which the life of learning is discovered, cultivated, and pursued. As Oakeshott has written, "This, then, is what we are concerned with: adventures in human self-understanding. Not the bare protestation that a human being is a self-conscious, reflective intelligence and that he does not live by bread alone, but the actual enquiries, utterances, and actions in which human beings have expressed their understanding of the human condition. This is the stuff of what has come to be called a liberal' education -- liberal' because it is liberated from the distracting business of satisfying contingent wants." Includes a foreword by Timothy Fuller that reiterates the timelessness of Oakeshott's reflections amid the continuing clamour that characterises discourse about liberal education.

Author : Andrew Gamble
Publisher : Policy Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2021-04-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781529217049

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The Western Ideology and Other Essays by Andrew Gamble Pdf

The Western Ideology brings together for the first time Andrew Gamble’s writings on political ideas and ideologies, which illustrate the main themes of his writing in intellectual history and the history of ideas, including economic liberalism and neoliberalism, and critiques from both social democratic and conservative perspectives.

Author : Michael Oakeshott
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1996-01-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0300105339

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The Politics of Faith and the Politics of Scepticism by Michael Oakeshott Pdf

Michael Oakeshott, the foremost British political philosopher of the twentieth century, died in 1990, leaving a substantial collection of unpublished material. Yale University Press is continuing to make available the best of these illuminating works. In this polished and hitherto unknown work, Oakeshott argues that modern politics was constituted out of a debate, persistent through centuries of European political experience down to our own day, over the question "What should governments do?" According to Oakeshott, two different answers have dominated our thought since the fifteenth century. One, exemplified by such thinkers as Rousseau and Marx, expresses a belief in the capacity of human beings to control, design, and monitor all aspects of social and political life, a belief fostered by the intoxicating increase in power available to governments in modern times. On the other hand, sceptics such as Montaigne, Pascal, and Hobbes argued that governments cannot, in principle, produce perfection and that we should prevent concentrations of power that may result in tyrannies that oppress the dignity of the human spirit. Oakeshott exposes the pitfalls of both positions and shows the value of a middle ground that incorporates scepticism with enough faith to avoid total quietism. Readers of Oakeshott will find here the thinking that lies behind his famous definition of politics as "the pursuit of intimations.".

Author : Michael Oakeshott
Publisher : Andrews UK Limited
Page : 563 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2011-10-24
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781845403058

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Lectures in the History of Political Thought by Michael Oakeshott Pdf

Oakeshott's memorable lectures on the history of political thought, delivered each year at the London School of Economics, will now be available in print for the first time as Volume II of his Selected Writings. Based on manuscripts in the LSE archive for 1966–67, the last year of Oakeshott's tenure as Professor of Political Science, these thirty lectures deal with Greek, Roman, mediaeval, and modern European political thought in a uniquely accessible manner. Scholars familiar with Oakeshott’s work will recognize his own ideas subtly blended with an exposition carefully crafted for an undergraduate audience; those discovering Oakeshott for the first time will find an account of the subject that remains illuminating and provocative.

Author : Peter Baehr,Philip Walsh
Publisher : Anthem Press
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2017-01-02
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781783081837

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The Anthem Companion to Hannah Arendt by Peter Baehr,Philip Walsh Pdf

The Anthem Companion to Hannah Arendt offers a unique collection of essays on one of the twentieth century’s greatest thinkers. The companion encompasses Arendt’s most salient arguments and major works – The Origins of Totalitarianism, The Human Condition, Eichmann in Jerusalem, On Revolution and The Life of the Mind. The volume also examines Arendt’s intellectual relationships with Max Weber, Karl Mannheim and other key social scientists. Although written principally for students new to Arendt’s work, The Anthem Companion to Hannah Arendt also engages the most avid Arendt scholar.

Author : Richard E. Flathman
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0742521494

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Thomas Hobbes by Richard E. Flathman Pdf

In his unconventional reading of the political philosophy of Thomas Hobbes, Flathman (political science, Johns Hopkins U.) suggests a liberal reading of Hobbes that is skeptical of ethical and metaphysical arguments that claim to know God or God's moral requirements. This leads to a view that the preferred political order is one in which disagreement and disturbance are to be privileged over an imposed homogeneity or uniformity. The foregoing suggests that we cannot do well without government, but we should chasten our expectations for government to provide the conditions necessary for the pursuit of our individual happiness. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR