From A Necessary Evil To The Art Of Contingency

Author : Suvi Soininen
Publisher : Andrews UK Limited
Page : 298 pages
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Release : 2015-10-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781845405243

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From a 'Necessary Evil' to the Art of Contingency by Suvi Soininen Pdf

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 British postwar political thought. It is argued that Oakeshott's conception of political activity shifted from a near contempt of politics towards the applauding of politics as a deliberative and reflective activity. The development is disclosed by examining the change in his key concepts, such as authority and tradition. Accordingly, some rather unexpected aspects of Oakeshott's thought, such as his close relationship to the linguistic turn, appear. The author argues that although Oakeshott cannot exactly be classified as belonging to that group of political philosophers for whom politics represents a superior human activity, his later work presents an important and original view of politics as an art of contingency.

Author : Suvi Soininen,Esa Konttinen,Pekka Olsbo
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Political science
ISBN : 9513916006

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From a 'necessary Evil' to an Art of Contingency by Suvi Soininen,Esa Konttinen,Pekka Olsbo Pdf

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Author : Michael Minch
Publisher : Andrews UK Limited
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2015-10-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781845403898

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The Democratic Theory of Michael Oakeshott by Michael Minch Pdf

his 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, and many times did so explicitly. The author’s project penetrates two renewals. The first is the revitalization of interest in Oakeshott, and the second is the renewal of democratic theory which began in the 1980s. In respect to this latter renewal, the book engages the deliberative turn in democratic theory. These revivals create the context for this new look at Oakeshott. To state the matter as a problem, one might say that in light of new and fecund democratic theory, it is a problem for political theory if one of the most important political theorists of the twentieth century is left out of the discourse insofar as he has something relevant to say about deliberative democracy. It is of no small importance that almost all the work in democratic theory being done these days is of the deliberative/discursive kind, or responses to it. That is, deliberative theory is driving the agenda of democratic theory. The author argues that Oakeshott does indeed have something relevant to say which is applicable to this democratic theory.

Author : Ferenc Hörcher
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 399 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2022-12-12
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783031135910

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Art and Politics in Roger Scruton's Conservative Philosophy by Ferenc Hörcher Pdf

This book covers the field of and points to the intersections between politics, art and philosophy. Its hero, the late Sir Roger Scruton had a longstanding interest in all fields, acquiring professional knowledge in both the practice and theory of politics, art and philosophy. The claim of the book is, therefore, that contrary to a superficial prejudice, it is possible to address the philosophical issues of art and politics in the same oeuvre, as the example of this Cambridge-educated analytical philosopher proves. Accordingly, the book has a bold thesis on the general, theoretical level, mapping the connections between politics, art and philosophy. However, it also has a pioneering commitment on the level of the particular, offering the first full-length study into the philosophical legacy of Roger Scruton, probably the most important British conservative philosopher of the late 20th and the first decades of the 21st century. It also allows reader to look into the philosopher’s fascination with Central European art and culture. Finally, it also provides a daring analysis of the late Scruton’s metaphysical inspirations, connecting the arts, and especially music, with religion and the bonds of love.

Author : Andrew Sullivan
Publisher : Andrews UK Limited
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2016-06-07
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781845405267

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Intimations Pursued by Andrew Sullivan Pdf

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 author to examine Oakeshott's view of religious life as the consummation of practice in its most poetic incarnation. The book also examines how the conception of practice is applied in Oakeshott's political writings, focusing on the notion of civil association.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Tallinn University of Technology
Page : 77 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2024-07-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789985596111

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Halduskultuur 7 by Anonim Pdf

Author : Luke Philip Plotica
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2015-02-23
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781438455365

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Michael Oakeshott and the Conversation of Modern Political Thought by Luke Philip Plotica Pdf

One of the seminal voices of twentieth-century political thought, Michael Oakeshott's work has often fallen prey to the ideological labels applied to it by his interpreters and commentators. In this book, Luke Philip Plotica argues that we stand to learn more by embracing Oakeshott's own understanding of his work as contributions to an ever-evolving conversation of humanity. Building from Oakeshott's concept of conversation as an engagement among a plurality of voices "without symposiarch or arbiter" to dictate its course, Plotica explores several fundamental and recurring themes of Oakeshott's philosophical and political writings: individual agency, tradition, the state, and democracy. When viewed as interventions into an ongoing conversation of modern political thought, Oakeshott's work transcends the limits of familiar ideological labels, and his thought opens into deeper engagement with some of the most significant thinkers of the twentieth century, including Ludwig Wittgenstein, Charles Taylor, Michel Foucault, and Hannah Arendt. Attending to these often unexpected or unrecognized affinities casts fresh light on some of Oakeshott's most familiar ideas and their systematic relations, and facilitates a better understanding of the breadth and depth of his political thought.

Author : Michael Oakeshott
Publisher : Andrews UK Limited
Page : 3341 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2014-08-26
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781845407827

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Michael Oakeshott Selected Writings Collection by Michael Oakeshott Pdf

A collection of 6 volumes of Oakeshott's work: Notebooks, 1922-86, Early Political Writings 1925-30, The Concept of a Philosophical Jurisprudence, Vocabulary of a Modern European State, Lectures in the History of Political Thought, and What is History?

Author : Michael Oakeshott
Publisher : Andrews UK Limited
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2011-10-31
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781845403263

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Early Political Writings 1925–30 by Michael Oakeshott Pdf

Michael Oakeshott (1901–90) made his reputation as a political philosopher, but for a long time it seemed as if he had little interest in politics before 1945. His major pre-war work, Experience and its Modes (1933) was an examination of the nature of philosophy and its relation to other forms of thought that made almost no mention of politics. However, it has become increasingly clear that this initial judgment was misleading. A posthumous collection of early essays, Religion, Politics, and the Moral Life (1993), proved that political philosophy was a lifelong concern. Nevertheless, the belief that Oakeshott was relatively uninterested in politics, at least in the 1920s, has persisted. This volume dispels that notion for good. It contains two previously unpublished works, a manuscript entitled 'A Discussion of some Matters preliminary to the Study of Political Philosophy', and the first version of a course of lectures on 'The Philosophical Approach to Politics' that Oakeshott gave between 1928 and 1930. These works establish that politics was a central concern in the first decade of his intellectual career, and show beyond any doubt that the ideas of Experience and its Modes actually grew out of Oakeshott's prior philosophical interest in politics.

Author : Pasi Ihalainen
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : 3825899268

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Redescriptions by Pasi Ihalainen Pdf

The 2006 volume of Redescriptions has two main themes, the political principles and practices of democratic political representation and the temporal dimension of politics, discussed in six articles and two review articles. Different principles and organizational arrangements play a key role in theories of political representation, in the democratization of suffrage and in the present debates on the modes of equal representation of women. The articles discussing the proper time for politics also refer to issues closely connected to debates on democracy and representation today.

Author : Eric Steven Kos
Publisher : Andrews UK Limited
Page : 159 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2016-07-20
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781845408695

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Michael Oakeshott, the Ancient Greeks, and the Philosophical Study of Politics by Eric Steven Kos Pdf

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 explores in detail extensive notes he made on the beginnings of political philosophy in ancient Greece in an unpublished set of notebooks in which he recorded his thoughts on many different subjects throughout his life. In addition, the book gives contemporary significance to Oakeshott’s interpretation of the history of political thought by using it to confront a series of contemporary challenges to the study of the history of political thought and to the study of the ‘great books.’ In particular, Oakeshott’s distinction between ‘various kinds or levels of political thought’ is carefully analyzed, as is also the extent of his agreement and disagreement with Quentin Skinner. In the concluding chapter, the author relates Oakeshott’s view of the nature of the history of political thought to his well-known description of philosophy as ‘conversation’, describing it as an introduction to that conversation.

Author : Kari Palonen
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
Page : 367 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783825892937

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The Struggle with Time. 2nd edition by Kari Palonen Pdf

"The author presents in this volume a synthesis of his long-term studies on the conceptual history of politics. He offers a rhetorical history of the horizons of conceptualizing politics an activity in terms of nine topoi: irregularity, judgment, policy, deliberation, commitment, contestation, possibility, situation and play & game. He both constructs a schema for conceptualization of the spectrum of activities that are called politics and applies it to British, French and German debates on the concept since the nineteenth century."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Eerik Lagerspetz,Oili Pulkkinen
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2023-10-31
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783031413971

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Between Theory and Practice: Essays on Criticism and Crises of Democracy by Eerik Lagerspetz,Oili Pulkkinen Pdf

Is it possible, in the complex modern world, to have a government ‘by the people’? Does, for example, digital technology help us to bring the reality closer to the ideal? Or does it actually make the ideal unattainable? The volume brings together conceptual historians, philosophers, political theorists and sociologists to discuss the criticisms and crises of democracy with fresh approaches to the idea of democracy, democratic theory, democratic institutions, trust and distrust, populism, and advancement of technologies in Western societies.

Author : Kenneth B. McIntyre
Publisher : Imprint Academic
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1845400100

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The Limits of Political Theory by Kenneth B. McIntyre Pdf

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 modality. The book suggests strongly that Oakeshott's philosophy of political activity cannot be reduced to a branch of conservatism, liberalism, or postmodernism or a theory or set of doctrines which fit neatly into any conventional school, like that of Idealism or Skepticism. Rather, Oakeshott's philosophy of political activity is a provocation to all of the currently dominant schools of political theory and political practice. It questions their presuppositions and exposes as ambiguous, arbitrary, or confused all of the supposed certainties which they take for granted. It does all this by offering profound insights into the character and limits of both political activity and political theory in the modern world.

Author : Aryeh Botwinick
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2010-11-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781400836956

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Michael Oakeshott's Skepticism by Aryeh Botwinick Pdf

The English philosopher Michael Oakeshott (1901-1990) is known as a conservative who rejected philosophically ambitious rationalism and the grand political ideologies of the twentieth century on the grounds that no human ideas have ultimately reliable foundations. Instead, he embraced tradition and habit as the guides to moral and political life. In this book, Aryeh Botwinick presents an original account of Oakeshott's skepticism about foundations, an account that newly reveals the unity of his thought. Botwinick argues that, despite Oakeshott's pragmatic conservatism, his rejection of all-embracing intellectual projects made him a friend to liberal individualism and an ally of what would become postmodern antifoundationalism. Oakeshott's skepticism even extended paradoxically to skepticism about skepticism itself and is better described as a "generalized agnosticism." Properly conceived and translated, this agnosticism ultimately evolves into mysticism, which becomes a bridge linking philosophy and religion. Botwinick explains and develops this strategy of interpretation and then shows how it illuminates and unifies the diverse strands of Oakeshott's thought in the philosophy of religion, metaphysics, epistemology, political theory, philosophy of personal identity, philosophy of law, and philosophy of history.