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The Poetic Character of Human Activity : Collected Essays on the Thought of Michael Oakeshott.

<Span style="font-style:italic;">The Poetic Character of Human Activity: Collected Essays on the Thought of Michael Oakshott is a collection of nine essays by two Oakeshott scholars, most of which explore the meaning of Oakeshott's pregnant phrase, "the poetic character of...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Cheung, Chor-yung (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lexington Books 2012.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Michael Oakeshott and the poetic character of human activity (Coats)
  • Practical implications of Oakeshott's poetic conception of human activity (Coats)
  • Skepticism, poetic imagination, and the art of non-instrumentality: Oakeshott and Zhuangzi (Cheung)
  • Some correspondences between Michael Oakeshott's critique of rationalism and A.C. Graham's account of spontaneity vs. reason (Coats)
  • Conversation and learning: Oakeshott and Confucius (Cheung)
  • Michael Oakeshott and contemporary political philosophy: an interpretation (Coats)
  • "Theory and practice" in Oakeshott, Strauss, and Vogelin (Coats)
  • Three views of Leviathan: Oakeshott, Strauss, and Vogelin (Coats)
  • The cave, the Tower of Babel, and civil conversation: methaphors and the philosophical and political thought of Oakeshott (Cheung).