Michael Oakeshott And The Cambridge School On The History Of Political Thought

Author : Martyn P. Thompson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 172 pages
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Release : 2019-05-20
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781315443744

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Michael Oakeshott and the Cambridge School on the History of Political Thought by Martyn P. Thompson Pdf

This book is a critique of Cambridge School Historical Contextualism as the currently dominant mode of history of political thought, drawing upon Michael Oakeshott’s analysis of the logic of historical enquiry. While acknowledging that the early Cambridge School work represented a considerable advance towards genuinely historical histories of political thought, this work identifies two major historiographical problems that have become increasingly acute. The first is general: an insufficiently rigorous understanding of the key concept of "pastness" necessarily presupposed in historical enquiry of all kinds. The second is specific to histories of political thought: a failure to do justice to the varieties of past political thinking, especially differences between ideology and philosophy. In addressing these problems, the author offers a comprehensive account of the history of political thought that establishes the parameters not just of histories of ideological thinking but also of the much disputed character of histories of political philosophy. Since rethinking history of political thought in Oakeshottian terms requires resisting current pressures to turn history into the servant of currently felt needs, the book offers a sustained defence of the cultural value of modernist historical enquiry against its opponents. An important work for political theorists, historians of political thought and those researching intellectual history, the philosophy of history and proposed new directions in contemporary historical studies.

Author : Michael Oakeshott
Publisher : Andrews UK Limited
Page : 543 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2011-10-24
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781845403041

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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 : Martyn P. Thompson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2019-05-20
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781315443751

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Michael Oakeshott and the Cambridge School on the History of Political Thought by Martyn P. Thompson Pdf

This book is a critique of Cambridge School Historical Contextualism as the currently dominant mode of history of political thought, drawing upon Michael Oakeshott’s analysis of the logic of historical enquiry. While acknowledging that the early Cambridge School work represented a considerable advance towards genuinely historical histories of political thought, this work identifies two major historiographical problems that have become increasingly acute. The first is general: an insufficiently rigorous understanding of the key concept of "pastness" necessarily presupposed in historical enquiry of all kinds. The second is specific to histories of political thought: a failure to do justice to the varieties of past political thinking, especially differences between ideology and philosophy. In addressing these problems, the author offers a comprehensive account of the history of political thought that establishes the parameters not just of histories of ideological thinking but also of the much disputed character of histories of political philosophy. Since rethinking history of political thought in Oakeshottian terms requires resisting current pressures to turn history into the servant of currently felt needs, the book offers a sustained defence of the cultural value of modernist historical enquiry against its opponents. An important work for political theorists, historians of political thought and those researching intellectual history, the philosophy of history and proposed new directions in contemporary historical studies.

Author : Michael Oakeshott
Publisher : Andrews UK Limited
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2011-10-25
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781845403027

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What Is History? by Michael Oakeshott Pdf

This highly readable new collection of thirty pieces by Michael Oakeshott, almost all of which are previously unpublished, covers every decade of his intellectual career, and adds significantly to his contributions to the philosophy of historical understanding and political philosophy, as well as to the philosophy of education and aesthetics. The essays were intended mostly for lectures or seminars, and are consequently in an informal style that will be accessible to new readers as well as to those already well acquainted with Oakeshott's works. Early pieces include a long essay ‘On the Relations of Philosophy, Poetry, and Reality', and Oakeshott’s comments on ‘The Cambridge School of Political Science’ through which he himself had passed as an undergraduate. The collection also reproduces a substantial wartime essay ‘On Peace with Germany’. There are two new essays on the philosophy of education, and the essay which gives the work its title, ‘What is History?’, is just one of over half a dozen discussions of the nature of historical knowledge. Oakeshott’s later sceptical, ‘hermeneutic’, thought is also well represented by pieces such as ‘What is Political Theory?’ and ‘The Emergence of the History of Thought.’ Reviews of books by English and European contemporaries such as Butterfield, Hayek, Voegelin, and Arendt also help to place him in context more clearly than before. The book will be indispensable for all Oakeshott’s readers, no matter which area of his thought concerns them most.

Author : Jesse Norman
Publisher : Duckworth Publishing
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015029725267

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The Achievement of Michael Oakeshott by Jesse Norman Pdf

Author : Eric S. Kos
Publisher : Springer
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2019-06-13
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783030174552

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Michael Oakeshott on Authority, Governance, and the State by Eric S. Kos Pdf

Michael Oakeshott on Authority, Governance, and the State presents contributions on one of the most important British philosophers of the 20th century. These essays address unique and under-analyzed areas in the literature on Oakeshott: authority, governance, and the state. They draw on some of the earliest and least-explored works of Oakeshott, including his lectures at Cambridge and the London School of Economics and difficult-to-access essays and manuscripts. The essays are authored by a diverse set of emerging and established scholars from Europe, North America, and India. This authorial diversity is not only a testimony to the growing international interest in Oakeshott, but also to a plurality of perspectives and important new insights into the thought of Michael Oakeshott.

Author : Davide Orsi
Publisher : Springer
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2016-10-04
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783319387857

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Michael Oakeshott's Political Philosophy of International Relations by Davide Orsi Pdf

This book argues that Michael Oakeshott’s political philosophy contributes to current debates in normative international theory and international political theory on the historical, social, and moral dimension of international society. Davide Orsi contends that the theory of civil association may be the ground for an understanding of international society as a rule-based form of moral association constituted by customary international law. The book also considers the role of evolving practices of morality in debates on international justice. Orsi grounds this work on a study of Oakeshott’s philosophical arguments and compares the Oakeshottian perspective to recent constructivist literature in International Relations.

Author : Kenneth B. McIntyre
Publisher : Andrews UK Limited
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2015-10-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781845403812

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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 : Cary J. Nederman,Guillaume Bogiaris
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781800373808

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Research Handbook on the History of Political Thought by Cary J. Nederman,Guillaume Bogiaris Pdf

This insightful Handbook reviews the key frameworks guiding political scientists and historians of political thought. Comprehensive in scope, it covers historical methodology, traditions, epochs, and classic authors and texts, spanning from ancient Greece until the nineteenth century.

Author : Michael Oakeshott
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 52,7 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 : Luke O'Sullivan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015057598818

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Oakeshott on History by Luke O'Sullivan Pdf

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 attempted to establish historical study as an autonomous form of thought during the twentieth century. It also contends that his work on the history of political thought is best seen in the context of debates over the origins of the liberal state. For the first time, extensive use has been made of unpublished material in the collection of Oakeshott's papers at the LSE, resulting in an intellectual biography that should be of interest both to first-time students and those already familiar with his published works.

Author : Efraim Podoksik
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 387 pages
File Size : 52,8 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 : Richard Whatmore
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2021-11-25
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780192595355

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The History of Political Thought: A Very Short Introduction by Richard Whatmore Pdf

Thinking about politics has tended to be historical in nature because of the comparisons and contrasts that can be drawn between past and present. Different periods in politics have used the past differently. At times political thought can be said to have been drawn directly from the study of history; at others, perhaps including our own time, the relationship is more indirect. This Very Short Introduction explores the core concerns and questions in the field of the history of political thought. Richard Whatmore considers the history of political thought as a branch of political philosophy/political science, and examines the approaches of core theorists such as Reinhart Koselleck, Strauss, Michel Foucault, and the so-called Cambridge School of Quentin Skinner and John Pocock. Assessing the current relationship between political history, theory and action, Whatmore concludes with an analysis of its relevant for current politics. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.

Author : Gary Browning
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2016-10-27
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780191504846

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A History of Modern Political Thought by Gary Browning Pdf

How are we to understand past political thinkers? Is it a matter simply of reading their texts again and again? Do we have to relate past texts of political thought to the contexts in which ideas were composed and in which the aims of past thinkers were formulated? Or should past political theories be deconstructed so as to uncover not what their authors maintain, but what the texts reveal? In this book, theories of interpreting past political thinkers are examined and the interpretive methods of a range of theories are reviewed, including those of Hegel, Marx, Oakeshott, Collingwood, the Cambridge School, Foucault, Derrida and Gadamer. The application of these theories of interpretation to notable modern political theorists, Machiavelli, Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau, Kant, Hegel, Marx, Bentham, Mill, Nietzsche and Beauvoir is then used as a way of understanding modern political thought and of assessing interpretive theories of past political thought. The result is a book which sees the history of modern political thought as more than a procession of political theories but rather as a reflection on the meaning of past political thought and its interpretation. It provides a way of reading the history of modern political thought, in which the question of interpretation matters both for understanding how we interpret the past but also for considering what it means to undertake political thinking.

Author : Preston King,B. C. Parekh
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1968-11-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0521073332

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Politics and Experience by Preston King,B. C. Parekh Pdf

This volume was compiled in 1968 to honour the retirement of the eminent political philosopher Professor Michael Oakeshott. Professor Oakeshott, widely regarded as one of the most important conservative intellectuals of the twentieth century, understood the need for political philosophy to conceive experience as a whole, and accordingly sought to address politics both historically and rationally. These essays engage with the common concerns of his major works, opportunistically exploring the ideas of this great thinker further. Moreover, they are a reflection of the contributors' academic interests, variously discussing tradition, the nature of political philosophy, ideology, revolution, education, history and rationalism. As the essays contained within are separate investigations of Oakeshott's ideas, they can be enjoyed both in and out of sequence. This volume will be of value to anyone with an appreciation of political philosophy and its history, and indeed, with an interest in the ideas of Professor Oakeshott himself.