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Michael Oakeshott / Edmund Neill.
Van Pelt Library JC257.O244 N45 2010
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Neill, Edmund.
- Series:
- Major conservative and libertarian thinkers ; v. 8.
- Major conservative and libertarian thinkers ; v. 8
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Oakeshott, Michael, 1901-1990.
- Oakeshott, Michael.
- Oakeshott, Michael, 1901-1990--Criticism and interpretation.
- Political scientists--Great Britain--Biography.
- Political scientists.
- Criticism and interpretation.
- Great Britain.
- Political science--Philosophy.
- Political science.
- Philosophy, Modern--20th century.
- Philosophy, Modern.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- x, 143 pages ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Continuum, 2010.
- Contents:
- 1 Michael Oakeshott's Life 1
- 2 Michael Oakeshott as Defender of Pluralism and Modernity 11
- Idealism, the Early Writings and Experience and Its Modes 17
- Politics, Rationalism and the Conversation of Mankind 31
- Oakeshott's Late Work: On Human Conduct and On History 51
- On the theoretical understanding of On Human Conduct 52
- The civil condition 61
- On History 69
- Conclusion 77
- 3 The Reception of Michael Oakeshott's Thought 79
- 4 Oakeshott's Continuing Relevance: Some Meditations on Conservatism and Liberalism 98.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780826421784
- 0826421784
- OCLC:
- 401715313
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