Michael Oakeshott on Authority, Governance, and the State
Michael Oakeshott on Authority, Governance, and the State

Author: Eric S. Kos

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2019-06-13

Total Pages: 233

ISBN-13: 3030174557

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Michael Oakeshott on Authority, Governance, and the State presents contributions on one of the most important British philosophers of the 20th century. These essays address unique and under-analyzed areas in the literature on Oakeshott: authority, governance, and the state. They draw on some of the earliest and least-explored works of Oakeshott, including his lectures at Cambridge and the London School of Economics and difficult-to-access essays and manuscripts. The essays are authored by a diverse set of emerging and established scholars from Europe, North America, and India. This authorial diversity is not only a testimony to the growing international interest in Oakeshott, but also to a plurality of perspectives and important new insights into the thought of Michael Oakeshott.

Morality and Politics in Modern Europe
Morality and Politics in Modern Europe

Author: Late Professor of Philosophy and Fellow Michael Oakeshott

Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 1993-01-01

Total Pages: 136

ISBN-13: 9780300056440

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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.

Michael Oakeshott
Michael Oakeshott

Author: Paul Franco

Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 2004-01-01

Total Pages: 232

ISBN-13: 9780300104042

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In this book Paul Franco provides an authoritative introduction to the life and thought of Michael Oakeshott, one of the most important philosophical voices of the twentieth century. After sketching a brief biography of Oakeshott, Franco then examines his most distinctive ideas, including his early idealist theory of knowledge, his influential critique of rationalism and central social planning, and his liberal theory of civil association. Though best known as a political philosopher, Oakeshott also made significant contributions to the philosophy of history, aesthetics, the philosophy of religion, and the philosophy of education. Franco highlights Oakeshott’s impressive achievements in each of these areas. His book is an essential introduction to the whole range of Oakeshott’s thought, and it sets the philosopher’s work in historical context while also demonstrating its relevance to contemporary debates in political philosophy.

The Authority of the State
The Authority of the State

Author: Leslie Green

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 1988

Total Pages: 296

ISBN-13:

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A study of the nature of authority and the character of the state. It draws on political philosophy, jurisprudence and public choice theory, to explain and evaluate the state's claim to authority over its citizens.

Oakeshott’s Skepticism, Politics, and Aesthetics
Oakeshott’s Skepticism, Politics, and Aesthetics

Author: Eric S. Kos

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Published: 2021-12-02

Total Pages: 222

ISBN-13: 9783030830540

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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 Oakeshott’s writings in often neglected areas and topics and in ways that brings Oakeshott into conversation with a surprisingly diverse set of thinkers.

The British Constitution Now
The British Constitution Now

Author: Ferdinand Mount

Publisher: Random House

Published: 2011-12-13

Total Pages: 371

ISBN-13: 1448135087

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In this book the former head of Mrs Thatcher's policy unit looks at the state of the British Constitution at a crucial time in its history, arguing that recent years have seen an increased willingness to monitor itself on the part of the Establishment, but that more audacious reforms are needed to restore full confidence in Parliament, government and the legal system.

Oakeshott’s Skepticism, Politics, and Aesthetics
Oakeshott’s Skepticism, Politics, and Aesthetics

Author: Eric S. Kos

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2021-12-01

Total Pages: 226

ISBN-13: 3030830551

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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 Oakeshott’s writings in often neglected areas and topics and in ways that brings Oakeshott into conversation with a surprisingly diverse set of thinkers.

The Rise of Post-Modern Conservatism
The Rise of Post-Modern Conservatism

Author: Matthew McManus

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2019-08-29

Total Pages: 277

ISBN-13: 3030246825

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This book is designed as a timely analysis of the rise of post-modern conservatism in many Western countries across the globe. It provides a theoretical overview of post-modernism, why post-modern conservatism emerged, what distinguishes it from other variants of conservatism and differing political doctrines, and how post-modern conservatism governs in practice. First developing a unique genealogy of conservative thought, arguing that the historicist and irrationalist strains of conservatism were ripe for mutation into post-modern form under the right social and cultural conditions, then providing a new unique theoretical framework to describe the conditions for the emergence of post-modern conservatism, The Rise of Post-modern Conservatism applies its theoretical framework to a concrete analysis of the politics of the day. Ultimately, it aims to help us understand the emergence and rise of identity oriented alt right movements and their “populist” spokesmen particularly in the United States, the United Kingdom, Hungary, Poland, and now Italy.

Michael Oakeshott on Religion, Aesthetics, and Politics
Michael Oakeshott on Religion, Aesthetics, and Politics

Author: Elizabeth Campbell Corey

Publisher: University of Missouri Press

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 268

ISBN-13: 0826265170

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"Argues that Oakeshott's views on aesthetics, religion, and morality, which she places in the Augustinian tradition, are intimately linked to a creative moral personality that underlies his political theorizing. Also compares Oakeshott's Rationalism to Voegelin's concept of Gnosticism and considers both thinkers' treatment of Hobbes to delineate their philosophical differences"--Provided by publisher.