A Companion to Michael Oakeshott

Abstract

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1. The Pursuit of Intimacy, or Rationalism in Love -- Part One: The Conversation of Mankind -- 2. The Victim of Thought: The Idealist Inheritance -- 3. Philosophy and Its Moods: Oakeshott on the Practice of Philosophy -- 4. Michael Oakeshott's Philosophy of History -- 5. Radical Temporality and the Modern Moral Imagination: Two Themes in the Thought of Michael Oakeshott -- 6. The Religious Sensibility of Michael Oakeshott -- 7. Whatever It Turns Out to Be: Oakeshott on Aesthetic Experience -- 8. Un Début dans la Vie Humaine: Michael Oakeshott on Education -- Part Two: Political Philosophy -- 9. Michael Oakeshott on the History of Political Thought -- 10. Oakeshott and Hobbes -- 11. The Fate of Rationalism in Oakeshott's Thought -- 12. Oakeshott and Hayek: Situating the Mind -- 13. Oakeshott as Conservative -- 14. Oakeshott on Civil Association -- 15. Oakeshott on Law -- Notes on Contributors -- Index