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Michael Oakeshott as a Philosopher of the "Creative"

And Other Essays
Wendell John Coats, Jr.

This book is a collection of eight essays on the work of the twentieth-century English philosophic essayist, Michael Oakeshott. Six of them advance the view in different ways that Oakeshott's multifarious lifework may be understood as variations on a singular insight — that the structure of experiential reality is 'creative' or 'poetic'.



The Place of Michael Oakeshott in Contemporary Western and Non-Western Thought

Noël O'Sullivan

Essays by contributors from Britain, Canada, Hong Kong, India, and the USA provide a comprehensive critical assessment of the principal aspects of Oakeshott's thought that account for his contemporary relevance.



The Legendary Past

Michael Oakeshott on Imagination and Political Identity
Natalie Riendeau

The book explores Oakeshott's thought on the key role human imagination plays in relation to the political.



Oakeshott on Rome and America

Gene Callahan

This book explores how the histories of Rome and America can help us to understand Oakeshott's claims about rational versus traditional politics.



The Meanings of Michael Oakeshott's Conservatism

Corey Abel

This collection of recent scholarship on the thought of Michael Oakeshott includes essays by both distinguished and established authors as well as a fresh crop of younger talent. Together, they address the meanings of Oakeshott's conservatism through the lenses of his ideas on religion, history, and tradition.



The Democratic Theory of Michael Oakeshott

Discourse, Contingency and the Politics of Conversation
Michael Minch

This 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.



Michael Oakeshott, the Ancient Greeks, and the Philosophical Study of Politics

Eric S. Kos

This book addresses a question fundamental for Oakeshott throughout his life, which is what we are doing when we read and discuss some memorable work in the history of political thought.



Education and the Voice of Michael Oakeshott

Kevin Williams

The work of Michael Oakeshott has retained a striking currency in philosophical discourse about education. In the light of this continuing interest and of Oakeshott's extensive writing on so many aspects of education, it is timely that a book be published on his thinking on the subject.



Intimations Pursued

The Voice of Practice in the Conversation of Michael Oakeshott
Andrew Sullivan

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.



Religious and Poetic Experience in the Thought of Michael Oakeshott

Glenn Worthington

This book argues that Oakeshott's characterisations of religious and poetic experience provide a more detailed account of the type of persona that emerged in response to what it perceived as an invitation to participate in moral association in the modern world.



From a Necessary Evil to an Art of Contingency

Michael Oakeshott's Conception of Political Activity
Suvi Soininen

This book presents a comprehensive study of Oakeshott's conception of political activity. The author first examines Oakeshott in the contexts of liberal, conservative and Idealist thought, and then presents a detailed interpretation of the change in his conception of politics in the context of British postwar political thought.



Intellectual Legacy of Michael Oakeshott

Timothy Fuller

This volume brings together a diverse range of perspectives reflecting the international appeal and multi-disciplinary interest that Oakeshott now attracts. The essays offer a variety of approaches to Oakeshott's thought.



Limits of Political Theory

Oakeshott's Philosophy of Civil Association
Kenneth B. McIntyre

This book examines Oakeshott's political philosophy within the context of his more general conception of philosophical understanding. The book stresses the underlying continuity of his major writings on the subject and takes seriously the implications of understanding the world in terms of modality.



Michael Oakeshott on Hobbes

Ian Tregenza

While many commentators have noted the importance of Hobbes for understanding Oakeshott's thought itself, this is the first book to provide a systematic interpretation of Oakeshott’s philosophy by paying close attention to all facets of Oakeshott’s reading of Hobbes.



In Defence of Modernity

The Social Thought of Michael Oakeshott
Efraim Podoksik

Although Oakeshott's philosophy has received considerable attention, the vision which underlies it has been almost completely ignored. This vision, which is rooted in the intellectual debates of his epoch, cements his ideas into a coherent whole and provides a compelling defence of modernity.



Oakeshott on History

Luke O'Sullivan

This book challenges the common view that Michael Oakeshott was mainly important as a political philosopher by offering the first comprehensive study of his ideas on history.



Sceptical Idealist

Michael Oakeshott as a Critic of the Enlightenment
Roy Tseng

This is the first book-length study to provide a structured interpretation of the significance of Michael Oakeshott's critique of the Enlightenment.