This collection engages the work of Michael Oakeshott predominantly on the themes of his skepticism, politics, and aesthetics. An international set of authors engages and expands the analysis of Oakeshotts writings in often neglected areas and topics and in ways that brings Oakeshott into conversation with a surprisingly diverse set of thinkers.
Recenzijos
The book will be a valuable resource for those who are conducting research on the thought of Michael Oakeshott, and it has brought a variety of new voices into the conversation about his wide-ranging and humane work. (Elizabeth Corey, History of European Ideas, March 22, 2024)
1. Introduction.-
2. Under the Law of Ruin: Practice, Aesthetics, and
the Civil Association.-
3. Michael Oakeshott Philosopher of Skepticism:
Conservative or Liberal?.-
4. Out of Rationalist Politics Crises: Popper and
Oakeshott.-
5. A Conservative Landscape: From A Guide to the Classics to the
Claims of Politics.-
6. The Art of the Scholar: Oakeshotts Conservative
Account of Liberal Learning.-
7. The Understanding of Rationalism in C.S.
Lewis and Michael Oakeshott: Tradition, Experience, and the Reading of Old
Books.-
8. Oakeshott, Strauss and the Romans.- 9. Authority: Fragments of
the Good Regime.-
10. That spirit of quiet: Oakeshott, Keats and Sontag
Towards a Philosophy of Silence.-
11. Oakeshotts Theory of Poetry: A
Corrective from Seamus Heaney.-
12. The Problem of a Pure Theory of Poetry.-
13. What can Contemporary Realists Learn from Montaigne? On the Significance
of the Author of the Essais for Michael Oakeshott and Raymond Geuss.
Eric S. Kos is Associate Professor of Political Science and Chair of the Social Sciences at Siena Heights University in Adrian, Michigan and former President of the Michael Oakeshott Association.
