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| Author | : Luke Philip Plotica |
| Publisher | : SUNY Press |
| Total Pages | : 204 |
| Release | : 2015-02-23 |
| Genre | : Philosophy |
| ISBN | : 1438455356 |
Download Michael Oakeshott and the Conversation of Modern Political Thought Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
A fresh reading of Oakeshotts contributions to the ongoing conversation of modern political thought. One of the seminal voices of twentieth-century political thought, Michael Oakeshotts work has often fallen prey to the ideological labels applied to it by his interpreters and commentators. In this book, Luke Philip Plotica argues that we stand to learn more by embracing Oakeshotts own understanding of his work as contributions to an ever-evolving conversation of humanity. Building from Oakeshotts concept of conversation as an engagement among a plurality of voices without symposiarch or arbiter to dictate its course, Plotica explores several fundamental and recurring themes of Oakeshotts philosophical and political writings: individual agency, tradition, the state, and democracy. When viewed as interventions into an ongoing conversation of modern political thought, Oakeshotts work transcends the limits of familiar ideological labels, and his thought opens into deeper engagement with some of the most significant thinkers of the twentieth century, including Ludwig Wittgenstein, Charles Taylor, Michel Foucault, and Hannah Arendt. Attending to these often unexpected or unrecognized affinities casts fresh light on some of Oakeshotts most familiar ideas and their systematic relations, and facilitates a better understanding of the breadth and depth of his political thought.
| Author | : Luke Philip Plotica |
| Publisher | : State University of New York Press |
| Total Pages | : 204 |
| Release | : 2015-02-23 |
| Genre | : Philosophy |
| ISBN | : 1438455364 |
Download Michael Oakeshott and the Conversation of Modern Political Thought Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
One of the seminal voices of twentieth-century political thought, Michael Oakeshott's work has often fallen prey to the ideological labels applied to it by his interpreters and commentators. In this book, Luke Philip Plotica argues that we stand to learn more by embracing Oakeshott's own understanding of his work as contributions to an ever-evolving conversation of humanity. Building from Oakeshott's concept of conversation as an engagement among a plurality of voices "without symposiarch or arbiter" to dictate its course, Plotica explores several fundamental and recurring themes of Oakeshott's philosophical and political writings: individual agency, tradition, the state, and democracy. When viewed as interventions into an ongoing conversation of modern political thought, Oakeshott's work transcends the limits of familiar ideological labels, and his thought opens into deeper engagement with some of the most significant thinkers of the twentieth century, including Ludwig Wittgenstein, Charles Taylor, Michel Foucault, and Hannah Arendt. Attending to these often unexpected or unrecognized affinities casts fresh light on some of Oakeshott's most familiar ideas and their systematic relations, and facilitates a better understanding of the breadth and depth of his political thought.
| Author | : Andrew Sullivan |
| Publisher | : Andrews UK Limited |
| Total Pages | : 258 |
| Release | : 2016-06-07 |
| Genre | : Philosophy |
| ISBN | : 1845405269 |
Download Intimations Pursued Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
In this book Andrew Sullivan examines Oakeshott's transition from his original emphasis on philosophy as providing what was ultimately satisfactory in experience to his later emphasis on practical life. This satisfaction is best achieved by a fusion of the modes of poetry and practice, leading the author to examine Oakeshott's view of religious life as the consummation of practice in its most poetic incarnation. The book also examines how the conception of practice is applied in Oakeshott's political writings, focusing on the notion of civil association.
| Author | : Late Professor of Philosophy and Fellow Michael Oakeshott |
| Publisher | : Yale University Press |
| Total Pages | : 136 |
| Release | : 1993-01-01 |
| Genre | : Philosophy |
| ISBN | : 9780300056440 |
Download Morality and Politics in Modern Europe Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
In 'Morality and politics in modern Europe', Oakeshott argues that two conflicting moralities underlie two opposed understandings of the office of government in modern Europe. On one hand is the morality of individuality, according to which the role of government is to frame and enforce rules of law that enable individuals to invent and pursue in peace their own diverse projects. On the other is the morality of collectivism, by which government is interpreted as the manager of a unified enterprise whose function is to provide for the community, regarded as an organic whole that pursues a single project to which all other activities are subordinate.
| Author | : Andrew Sullivan |
| Publisher | : Andrews UK Limited |
| Total Pages | : 266 |
| Release | : 2016-06-07 |
| Genre | : Philosophy |
| ISBN | : 1845405277 |
Download Intimations Pursued Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
In this book Andrew Sullivan examines Oakeshott's transition from his original emphasis on philosophy as providing what was ultimately satisfactory in experience to his later emphasis on practical life. This satisfaction is best achieved by a fusion of the modes of poetry and practice, leading the author to examine Oakeshott's view of religious life as the consummation of practice in its most poetic incarnation. The book also examines how the conception of practice is applied in Oakeshott's political writings, focusing on the notion of civil association.
| Author | : Paul Franco |
| Publisher | : Penn State Press |
| Total Pages | : 360 |
| Release | : 2015-06-26 |
| Genre | : Philosophy |
| ISBN | : 0271060174 |
Download A Companion to Michael Oakeshott Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Michael Oakeshott has long been recognized as one of the most important political philosophers of the twentieth century, but until now no single volume has been able to examine all the facets of his wide-ranging philosophy with sufficient depth, expertise, and authority. The essays collected here cover all aspects of Oakeshott’s thought, from his theory of knowledge and philosophies of history, religion, art, and education to his reflections on morality, politics, and law. Aside from the editors, the contributors are Corey Abel, David Boucher, Elizabeth Corey, Robert Devigne, Timothy Fuller, Steven Gerencser, Robert Grant, Noel Malcolm, Kenneth McIntyre, Kenneth Minogue, Noël O’Sullivan, Geoffrey Thomas, and Martyn Thompson.
| Author | : Michael Oakeshott |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 72 |
| Release | : 1959 |
| Genre | : Poetry |
| ISBN | : |
Download The Voice of Poetry in the Conversation of Mankind Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
| Author | : Aryeh Botwinick |
| Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
| Total Pages | : 267 |
| Release | : 2010-11-01 |
| Genre | : Philosophy |
| ISBN | : 1400836956 |
Download Michael Oakeshott's Skepticism Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The English philosopher Michael Oakeshott (1901-1990) is known as a conservative who rejected philosophically ambitious rationalism and the grand political ideologies of the twentieth century on the grounds that no human ideas have ultimately reliable foundations. Instead, he embraced tradition and habit as the guides to moral and political life. In this book, Aryeh Botwinick presents an original account of Oakeshott's skepticism about foundations, an account that newly reveals the unity of his thought. Botwinick argues that, despite Oakeshott's pragmatic conservatism, his rejection of all-embracing intellectual projects made him a friend to liberal individualism and an ally of what would become postmodern antifoundationalism. Oakeshott's skepticism even extended paradoxically to skepticism about skepticism itself and is better described as a "generalized agnosticism." Properly conceived and translated, this agnosticism ultimately evolves into mysticism, which becomes a bridge linking philosophy and religion. Botwinick explains and develops this strategy of interpretation and then shows how it illuminates and unifies the diverse strands of Oakeshott's thought in the philosophy of religion, metaphysics, epistemology, political theory, philosophy of personal identity, philosophy of law, and philosophy of history.
| Author | : Michael Minch |
| Publisher | : Andrews UK Limited |
| Total Pages | : 366 |
| Release | : 2015-10-15 |
| Genre | : Philosophy |
| ISBN | : 1845403894 |
Download The Democratic Theory of Michael Oakeshott Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
his book offers a description, explanation, and evaluation of Michael Oakeshott's democratic theory. He was not a democratic theorist as such, but as a twentieth-century English political theorist for whom liberal theory held deep importance, his thought often engaged democratic theory implicitly, and many times did so explicitly. The author's project penetrates two renewals. The first is the revitalization of interest in Oakeshott, and the second is the renewal of democratic theory which began in the 1980s. In respect to this latter renewal, the book engages the deliberative turn in democratic theory. These revivals create the context for this new look at Oakeshott. To state the matter as a problem, one might say that in light of new and fecund democratic theory, it is a problem for political theory if one of the most important political theorists of the twentieth century is left out of the discourse insofar as he has something relevant to say about deliberative democracy. It is of no small importance that almost all the work in democratic theory being done these days is of the deliberative/discursive kind, or responses to it. That is, deliberative theory is driving the agenda of democratic theory. The author argues that Oakeshott does indeed have something relevant to say which is applicable to this democratic theory.
| Author | : Stuart Isaacs |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 333 |
| Release | : 2006-09-27 |
| Genre | : Philosophy |
| ISBN | : 1134155719 |
Download The Politics and Philosophy of Michael Oakeshott Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Michael Oakeshott was a leading Political theorist described by The Telegraph in 1990 as "the greatest political philosopher in the Anglo-Saxon tradition since Mill – or even Burke". There has been sustained interest in his work, and a developing body of literature, over recent years. This book offers a clearly written and accessible critical analysis: it presents complex theories and concepts in a way that will introduce new readers to Oakeshott’s work, and at the same time offers a fresh approach for those already familiar with his philosophy. The Politics and Philosophy of Michael Oakeshott reveals how his work relates to contemporary political philosophy (for example, Arendt, Rorty, Rawls); and moreover, how it links to broader debates within philosophy and the social sciences and, building upon the work of Devigne, through to postmodernism. This book brings together the disparate influences that have, at various times, been associated with Oakeshott’s work, and draws from a number of essays which have been published posthumously. Referring to these, and other more well-known texts, the author makes sense of the many dimensions of Oakeshott’s work by placing a moral concern as central to his system of thought. All in all this book considers the recently published ‘lesser-known’ essays as well as the latest secondary appraisals of Oakeshott’s work, which sets his thought in the contemporary political environment of the twenty-first century. This much-needed text with be of great interest to students and researchers in political science and philosophy.
