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This book assesses the significance of Michael Oakeshott s political philosophy and his relationship to liberalism, both in theory and in practice. The essays coverage a range of different topics, including Oakeshott in relation to other thinkers like Hobbes, Strauss, Houellebecq, Berlin, and Aristotle; Oakeshott s thought in the context of countries like China and Poland; Oakeshott s thought on legal theory and policies relating to technology; and Oakeshott s liberal theory on its own. In the thirty-five years since Oakeshott died, interest in his work continues to grow. How Oakeshott s thought illuminates issues that have persisted since his time and have taken on new dimensions is an important investigation in the history of political thought.
List of contents
Chapter 1:Introduction.- Chapter 2:The Noble Way: Michael Oakeshott and Aristotle s Conception of Magnanimity.- Chapter 3:An Illiberal Life: Oakeshott, Berlin, and the Counter-Enlightenment.- Chapter 4:The Individual Manqué in Oakeshott and Houellebecq.- Chapter 5:Beyond Liberalism: The English Imagination in the Political Theory of Michael Oakeshott.- Chapter 6:Oakeshott and Liberalism.- Chapter 7:The Joys of Muddling Oakeshott Among the Textualists.- Chapter 8:Oakeshott on Strauss Hobbes.- Chapter 9:The Split Personality of the State / The Doubleness of Politics / The Brokenness of Political Reality / The Caesura in the History of Political Thought.- Chapter 10:The Idea of the political in Oakeshott.- Chapter 11:Theorizing the Civil Condition: Oakeshott and Chinese liberalism.- Chapter 12:Un-Oakeshottian liberalism in Poland after 1989.- Chapter 13:Michael Oakeshott On the Dangers of Rationalist Teleocracy.- Chapter 14:Mobilization and Governing.- Chapter 15:Neither Harbour nor Floor: Contemplating the Singularity with Michael Oakeshott.
About the author
Eric S. Kos is a recently retired professor of political science from Siena Heights University. He is the editor of¿Michael Oakeshott on Authority, Governance, and the State¿(Palgrave Macmillan, 2019) and¿Oakeshott’s Skepticism, Politics, and Aesthetics¿(Palgrave Macmillan, 2022).¿ He is also a charter member of the Michael Oakeshott Association, of which he was the president from 2015 to 2017 and a secretary from 2011 to 2015 and from 2019 to present.
Summary
This book assesses the significance of Michael Oakeshott’s political philosophy and his relationship to liberalism, both in theory and in practice. The essays coverage a range of different topics, including Oakeshott in relation to other thinkers like Hobbes, Strauss, Houellebecq, Berlin, and Aristotle; Oakeshott’s thought in the context of countries like China and Poland; Oakeshott’s thought on legal theory and policies relating to technology; and Oakeshott’s liberal theory on its own. In the thirty-five years since Oakeshott died, interest in his work continues to grow. How Oakeshott’s thought illuminates issues that have persisted since his time and have taken on new dimensions is an important investigation in the history of political thought.
