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Oakeshott on history / Luke O'Sullivan.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- O'Sullivan, Luke.
- Series:
- British idealist studies. Oakeshott ; Series 1, 2.
- British idealist studies. Series 1, Oakeshott ; 2
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- History--Philosophy.
- History.
- Oakeshott, Michael, 1901-1990.
- Oakeshott, Michael.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (362 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Exeter [England] ; Charlottesville, Va. : Imprint Academic, c2003.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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 contex...
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [273]-288) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-84540-426-2
- 1-84540-427-0
- OCLC:
- 845257913
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