Michael Joseph Oakeshott Livres

In 1989, Michael Oakeshott's work engages with the prevailing critical discourse surrounding education in the United States, which had gained significant traction. The book offers a counter-narrative to the negative perspectives dominating the conversation, presenting a more nuanced understanding of liberal learning. Through Oakeshott's insights, readers are invited to reconsider the value and purpose of education, contributing to an essential dialogue about its role in society.

"This new collection of thirty unpublished pieces covers every decade of Michael Oakeshott's career and adds to his contributions to the philosophy of historical understanding, political philosophy and the philosophy of education and aesthetics. The essays are in an informal style that will be accessible to new readers as well as those already acquainted with Oakeshott's works."--Jacket.

Exploring the intricate relationship between Michael Oakeshott and Thomas Hobbes, this collection features Oakeshott's four key essays that delve into civil association and its significance for ordered liberty. Central themes include skepticism about reason in politics, the importance of individual morality over collectivism, and the concept of noninstrumental political relationships. Oakeshott regards Hobbes's "Leviathan" as a monumental work in political philosophy, emphasizing its lasting impact on the understanding of civil association.

In five essays, including three on historiography, one of the greatest minds in English political thought in the twentieth century explores themes central to the human the nature of history, the rule of law, and the quest for power that is intrinsic to the human condition. Michael Oakeshott believed, as Timothy Fuller observes, that “the historian’s effort to understand the past without ulterior motive [is the] effort which distinguishes the historian from all who examine the past for the guidance they expect it to provide about practical concerns.” Timothy Fuller is Professor of Political Science at Colorado College.

Rationalism in Politics established the late Michael Oakeshott as the leading conservative political theorist in modern Britain. This expanded collection of essays astutely points out the limits of “reason” in rationalist politics and criticizes ideological schemes to reform society according to supposedly “scientific” or rationalistic principles that ignore the wealth and variety of human experience. Timothy Fuller is Professor of Political Science at Colorado College.

This is a collection of 30 pieces by Michael Oakeshott, almost all of which are previously unpublished, covering every decade of his intellectual career. The essays were intended mostly for lectures or seminars and retain an informal style that makes them accessible to readers.

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This collection features over a hundred essays and reviews by Oakeshott, spanning from 1926 to 1951, previously unpublished in one volume. A new editorial introduction highlights the significance of these works, particularly a lengthy essay on jurisprudence, which is central to Oakeshott's philosophy. The anthology contextualizes his thought by engaging with prominent figures in the humanities and social sciences, such as Leo Strauss and A.N. Whitehead, thereby enriching the understanding of his intellectual landscape.

Michael Oakeshott's classic discussion of modality and human experience in relation to the practical, the historical and the scientific modes of understanding is presented in a new series livery with a specially commissioned preface, written by Paul Franco, for twenty-first-century readers, in recognition of its enduring importance.

A Guide to the Classics is a light-hearted manual on how to pick the Derby winner. This long-awaited edition of Griffith and Oakeshott's classic text includes a new preface and foreword by horse racing journalist and author Sean Magee, and political commentator Peter Oborne.