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The Intellectual Legacy of Michael Oakeshott

Corey Abel and Timothy Fuller, Editors


This volume brings together a diverse range of perspectives reflecting the international appeal and multi-disciplinary interest in Michael Oakeshott and his work. The essays offer a variety of approaches to Oakeshott’s thought — testament to the abiding depth, originality, and suggestiveness of his writings. The essays were selected from among the best papers presented at the first two international conferences of the Michael Oakeshott Association, in London 2001 and in Colorado Springs 2003. The authors include individuals who knew Oakeshott personally as well as younger scholars who have discovered his work. As a collection this volume challenges Oakeshott’s reputation as a mere critic of social planning.

Table of Contents

  • Foreword
  • Table of Abbreviations

  • PART I - Oakeshott and the Ancients

    • Debra Candreva, Oakeshott and Plato: A Philosophical Conversation
    Eric S. Kos, Themes in Oakeshott's Modern European State
    Corey Abel, Appropriating Aristotle


  • PART II - Oakeshott and the Moderns

Douglas J. Den Uyl, Spinoza and Oakeshott
Josiah Lee Auspitz, Modality and Compossibility
Paul Franco, Oakeshott's Relationship to Hegel
George Feaver, Regimes of Liberty: Michael Oakeshott on Representative Democracy
Richard Friedman, Michael Oakeshott and the Elusive Identity of the Rule of law


  • PART III - Oakeshott Today

Kenneth Minogue, Oakeshott's Rationalism Revisted
Gerhard Wolmarans, Michael Oakeshott's Characterization of 'Politics' in an African Context
Terry Nardin, Oakeshott's Philosophy of the Social Sciences
Leslie Marsh, Constructivism and Relativism in Oakeshott
Keith Sutherland, Rationalism and Cognitive Science
Martyn P. Thompson, Intimations of Poetry in Practical Life
Robert Grant, Oakeshott on the Nature and Place of Aesthetic Experience: A Critique
Wendell John Coats, Jr., Michael Oakeshott and the Poetic Character of Human Activity

 

· ISBN 1-84540-009-7 · Published February 2005 by Imprint Academic · Cloth · 327 pages · $58.00 ·

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