The poetic character of human activity : collected essays on the thought of Michael Oakeshott / Wendell John Coats, Jr., and Chor-yung Cheung.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Coats, Wendell John.

Contributor:

Cheung, Chor-yung.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Oakeshott, Michael, 1901-1990.

Oakeshott, Michael.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (152 p.)

Place of Publication:

Lanham, Md. : Lexington Books, c2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The Poetic Character of Human Activity: Collected Essays on the Thought of Michael Oakshott is a collection of nine essays by two Oakeshott scholars, most of which explore the meaning of Oakeshott's pregnant phrase, "the poetic character of human activity" by comparing and contrasting this central idea with similar and opposing ones, in particular those of the Chinese thinkers, Zhuangzi and Confucius, but also of Western thinkers such as Plato, Leo Strauss and Eric Voegelin. Common themes addressed include the poetic or non-instrument

Contents:

Michael Oakeshott and the poetic character of human activity (Coats)

Practical implications of Oakeshott's poetic conception of human activity (Coats)

Skepticism, poetic imagination, and the art of non-instrumentality: Oakeshott and Zhuangzi (Cheung)

Some correspondences between Michael Oakeshott's critique of rationalism and A.C. Graham's account of spontaneity vs. reason (Coats)

Conversation and learning: Oakeshott and Confucius (Cheung)

Michael Oakeshott and contemporary political philosophy: an interpretation (Coats)

"Theory and practice" in Oakeshott, Strauss, and Vogelin (Coats)

Three views of Leviathan: Oakeshott, Strauss, and Vogelin (Coats)

The cave, the Tower of Babel, and civil conversation: methaphors and the philosophical and political thought of Oakeshott (Cheung).

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

979-82-16-32790-5

1-283-54881-X

9786613861269

0-7391-7162-3

OCLC:

810533751