The meanings of Michael Oakeshott's conservatism / edited by Corey Abel.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Abel, Corey, editor.

Series:

British Idealist Studies 1: Oakeshott

British Idealist Studies 1: Oakeshott ; v.3

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Oakeshott, Michael, 1901-1990--Criticism and interpretation.

Oakeshott, Michael.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (318 p.)

Edition:

2nd ed.

Place of Publication:

[Exeter, UK] : Imprint Academic, [2010]

Summary:

This collection of recent scholarship on the thought of Michael Oakeshott includes essays by both distinguished and established authors as well as a fresh crop of younger talent. Together, they address the meanings of Oakeshott's conservatism through the lenses of his ideas on religion, history, and tradition, and explore his relationships to philosophers ranging from Hume to Ryle, Cavell, and others. The collection assigns no single or final meaning to Oakeshott's conservatism, but finds in him a number of possibilities for thinking fruitfully about what conservatism might mean, when it is no longer considered as a doctrine, but as a habit or a turn of mind.

Contents:

Cover ; Contents; Front matter ; Title page ; Publisher information ; List of Contributors; List of Abbreviations; Epigraph ; Foreword; Body matter ; Part I: Religion ; 1. Skepticism and Tradition: The Religious Imagination of Michael Oakeshott ; 2. Oakeshott's Wise Defense: Christianity as a Civilization ; 3. Language and the Conservation of the Religious Disposition ; 4. Religion and Art: Modal Formalism and Political Antinomies ; Part II: History ; 5. What is Political Thought? The Example of Law in Greece and Rome in Oakeshott's London School of Economics Letters

6. A Conservative Concept of Freedom: Otto von Gierke's 'Genossenschaftslehre' and Oakeshott's Philosophy of Practice 7. Geography Cannot Replace History ; Part III: Currents in Philosophy ; 8. The Relation of Philosophy to Conservatism in the Thought of Michael Oakeshott ; 9. Conservatism, Romanticism, and the Understanding of Modernity ; 10. Ryle and Oakeshott on the 'Knowing-How/Knowing-That' Distinction ; 11. Conversation, Conversion and Conservation: Oakeshott, Arendt and a Little Bit of Cavell ; 12. Richard Rorty, Michael Oakeshott and the Impossibility of Liberalism Without Tradition

13. The Conservative Disposition and the Precautionary Principle Part IV: On Being Conservative ; 14. Being English: The Conservative Witness of Michael Oakeshott ; 15. A Brief Enchantment: The Role of Conversation and Poetry in Human Life ; 16. One Hand Clapping: The Reception of Oakeshott's Work by American Conservatives ; 17. Conservatives' Paradox in Post-Communism ; 18. 'A Dark Age Devoted to Barbaric Affluence': Oakeshott's Verdict on the Modern World ; Back matter ; Index ; Also available

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed March 14, 2016).

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

1-84540-602-8

1-84540-603-6

OCLC:

941700266