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Michael Joseph Oakeshott FBA (/ ˈ oʊ k ʃ ɒ t /; 11 December 1901 – 19 December 1990) was an English philosopher and political theorist who wrote on the philosophies of history, religion, aesthetics, education, and law.
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Mar 8, 2016 · Michael Oakeshott (1901–1990) is often called a conservative thinker. But this label identifies only one aspect of his thought and invites misunderstanding because it is ambiguous. His ideas spring from a lifetime of reading in the literature of European thought, sharpened by philosophical reflection on its arguments and presuppositions.
Michael Oakeshott has 67 books on Goodreads with 5611 ratings. Michael Oakeshott’s most popular book is Rationalism in Politics and other essays.
Thorverton: Imprint Academic, 2010. “Michael Oakeshott (1901–90) made his reputation as a political philosopher, but for a long time it seemed as if he had little interest in politics before 1945. His major pre-war work, Experience and its Modes (1933) was an examination of the nature…. More.
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Oakeshott’s collection of essays, Rationalism in Politics and Other Essays (1962), and his more systematic work of political philosophy, On Human Conduct (1975), were key texts of conservative traditionalism, exploring both the nature and implications of human imperfection.
He was best known for learned essays with a polemical edge. First collected in Rationalism in Politics and Other Essays (1962), the most influential were written in the postwar decade when Britain was debating the terms of her return to normality.
Jan 1, 2004 · In this book Paul Franco provides an authoritative introduction to the life and thought of Michael Oakeshott, one of the most important philosophical voices of the twentieth century.
