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The meanings of Michael Oakeshott's conservatism /

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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Abel, Corey (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: [Exeter, UK] : Imprint Academic, [2010]
Colección:British idealist studies. Oakeshott ; 3.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • pt. 1, Religion: Skepticism and tradition : the religious imagination of Michael Oakeshott / Ian Tregenza ; Oakeshott's wise defense : Christianity as a civilization / Corey Abel ; Language and the conservation of the religious disposition / Todd Breyfogle ; Religion and art : modal formalism and political antinomies / Byron Kaldis
  • pt. 2, History: What is political thought? : the example of law in Greece and Rome in Oakehott's LSE lectures / Josiah Lee Auspitz ; A conservative concept of freedom : Otto von Gierke's 'Genossenschaftslehre' and Oakeshott's philosophy of practice / Michael Henkel ; Geography cannot replace history / Gene Callahan
  • pt. 3: Currents in philosophy: The relation of philosophy to conservatism in the thought of Michael Oakeshott / Timothy Fuller ; Conservatism, Romanticism, and the understanding of modernity / Roy Tseng ; Ryle and Oakeshott on the "knowing-how/knowing-that" distinction / Leslie Marsh ; Conversation, conversion and conservation : Oakeshott, Arendt and a little bit of Cavell / Richard Flathman ; Richard Rorty, Michael Oakeshott and the impossibility of liberalism without tradition / Jeff Rabin ; The conservative disposition and the precautionary principle / Stephen Turner
  • Part IV, On being conservative: Being English : the conservative witness of Michael Oakeshott / George Feaver ; A brief enchantment : the role of conversation and poetry in human life / Ferenc Hörcher ; One hand clapping : the reception of Oakeshott's work by American conservatives / Kenneth B. McIntyre ; Conservatives' paradox in post-communism / Atilla K. Molnár ; 'A dark age devoted to barbaric affluence' : Oakeshott's verdict on the modern world / Ivo Mosley.