Michael Oakeshott
by Neill, Edmund; Meadowcroft, JohnFormat: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2009-11-19
Publisher(s): Bloomsbury Academic
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Summary
This valuable volume by Edmund Neill sets out Oakeshottrs"s thought in an accessible manner, considering its initial reception and long-term influence.
Author Biography
Dr Neill is a Lecturer in Modern History at Magdalen College, University of Oxford, UK. Dr Meadowcroft is Lecturer in Public Policy at King's College London and the author of The Ethics of the Market (Palgrave, 2005) and co-author of Rescuing Social Capital from Social Democracy (Institute of Economic Affairs, 2007).
Table of Contents
| Series Editor's Preface | p. ix |
| Michael Oakeshott's Life | p. 1 |
| Michael Oakeshott as Defender of Pluralism and Modernity | p. 11 |
| Idealism, the Early Writings and Experience and Its Modes | p. 17 |
| Politics, Rationalism and the Conversation of Mankind | p. 31 |
| Oakeshott's Late Work: On Human Conduct and On History | p. 51 |
| On the theoretical understanding of On Human Conduct | p. 52 |
| The civil condition | p. 61 |
| On History | p. 69 |
| Conclusion | p. 77 |
| The Reception of Michael Oakeshott's Thought | p. 79 |
| Oakeshott's Continuing Relevance: Some Meditations on Conservatism and Liberalism | p. 98 |
| Notes | p. 115 |
| Bibliography | p. 129 |
| Index | p. 139 |
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