Cambridge Companion to Oakeshott

Name: Cambridge Companion to Oakeshott
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ISBN: 9780521764674

ISBN-10: 052176467X

ISBN-13: 9780521764674

Edition: 2012

Authors: Efraim Podoksik

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Michael Oakeshott (1901–1990) was one of the leading British philosophers of the twentieth century. He has been influential particularly as a political philosopher, but his work reflects a range of philosophical interests that have more gradually come to be appreciated. In this volume a broad group of scholars offers a comprehensive overview of Oakeshott's philosophy, including his moral and political philosophy, his philosophy of history, science and aesthetics, and his views on the role of education. They analyse Oakeshott's ideas in different intellectual contexts and assess his overall contribution to twentieth-century thought. Accessible and rich with new scholarly material, this…

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List price: $120.95
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 6/7/2012
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 386
Size: 6.14" wide x 9.21" long x 0.91" tall
Weight: 1.628
Language: English

Efraim Podoksik is Senior Lecturer in Political Science at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He is author of In Defence of Modernity: Vision and Philosophy of Michael Oakeshott (2003).



Introduction Efraim Podoksik



Oakeshott's Philosophy



Oakeshott as philosopher




Worlds of experience: history




Worlds of experience: science




Worlds of experience: aesthetics




Education as conversation




Oakeshott on Morality, Society and Politics



Practical life and the critique of rationalism




Oakeshott's ideological politics: conservative or liberal?




Rhetoric and political language




Oakeshott's On Human Conduct




Oakeshott's political theory: recapitulation and criticisms




Oakeshott and Others



Oakeshott in the context of British Idealism




Oakeshott in the context of German Idealism




Oakeshott's contribution to Hobbes scholarship




Oakeshott and the Cold-War critique of political rationalism



Bibliography


Index