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"During the Cold War, political thinkers in the West debated the balance between the requirements of liberal democracy and national security. This debate is relevant to East Asia and especially to Korea, where an ideological-military standoff between a democracy and a totalitarian system persists. The thinkers often identified as "Cold War liberals"--Isaiah Berlin, Karl Popper, Raymond Aron, Friedrich Hayek, and Michael Oakeshott--are worth revisiting in this context. Of these, Oakeshott is the least well understood in East Asia and therefore particularly deserving of attention. His ideas about the limits of rationalism in politics, the irrelevance of conventional views of liberalism and conservatism, how constitutional democracy should be defined, and how it can be defended against various forms of anti-liberal politics are especially valuable. In this book, leading Oakeshott scholars from around the world explore these ideas and their implications for East Asia in ten illuminating and readable essays"--
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Contents Contributors Introduction: Michael Oakeshott's Cold War Liberalism; Terry Nardin PART I: OAKESHOTT ON MODERN POLITICS: CONSERVATIVE OR LIBERAL? 1. Michael Oakeshott: Neither Liberal nor Conservative; Terry Nardin 2. Oakeshott, Modernity, and Cold War Liberalism; Edmund Neill 3. Conserving the University as a Place for Liberal Learning; Erika A. Kiss PART II: OAKESHOTT ON TOTALITARIANISM AND CONSTITUTIONAL DEMOCRACY 4. Oakeshott and Totalitarianism; Andrew Gamble 5. Rule of Law or City of Babel: Oakeshott on the Twentieth-Century State; Cheung Chor-yung 6. An Association for Amiable Adventurers: On Oakeshott's Peculiar Constitutionalism; Jan-Werner Müller PART III: OAKESHOTT IN THE EAST ASIAN CONTEXT 7. Oakeshott in China; Zhang Rulun 8. Michael Oakeshott and Confucian Constitutionalism; Kim Sungmoon 9. Some Implications of Oakeshott's Thought for Contemporary Korean Society and Politics; Kim Bi Hwan
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Chor-yung Cheung, City University of Hong Kong
Andrew Gamble, Queens' College in the University of Cambridge
Bi Hwan Kim, Sungkyunkwan University, Korea, and the Korean Society for Political Thought
Sungmoon Kim, City University of Hong Kong
Erika A. Kiss, University Center for Human Values at Princeton University, USA
Jan-Werner Müller, Princeton University, USA
Terry Nardin, National University of Singapore
Edmund Neill, New College of the Humanities, UK
Zhang Rulun, Fudan University, China
