Michael Joseph Oakeshott Libros

In 1989, Michael Oakeshott's work engages with the prevailing critical discourse surrounding education in the United States, which had gained significant traction. The book offers a counter-narrative to the negative perspectives dominating the conversation, presenting a more nuanced understanding of liberal learning. Through Oakeshott's insights, readers are invited to reconsider the value and purpose of education, contributing to an essential dialogue about its role in society.

Exploring the intricate relationship between Michael Oakeshott and Thomas Hobbes, this collection features Oakeshott's four key essays that delve into civil association and its significance for ordered liberty. Central themes include skepticism about reason in politics, the importance of individual morality over collectivism, and the concept of noninstrumental political relationships. Oakeshott regards Hobbes's "Leviathan" as a monumental work in political philosophy, emphasizing its lasting impact on the understanding of civil association.

Rationalism in Politics, first published in 1962, has established the late Michael Oakeshott as the leading conservative political theorist in modern Britain. This expanded collection of essays astutely points out the limits of "reason" in rationalist politics.Oakeshott criticizes ideological schemes to reform society according to supposedly "scientific" or rationalistic principles that ignore the wealth and variety of human experience. "Rationalism in politics," says Oakeshott, "involves a misconception with regard to the nature of human knowledge." History has shown that it produces unexpected, often disastrous results. "Having cut himself off from the traditional knowledge of his society, and denied the value of any education more extensive than a training in a technique of analysis," the Rationalist succeeds only in undermining the institutions that hold civilized society together. In this regard, rationalism in politics is "a corruption of the mind."Timothy Fuller is Professor of Political Science and Dean of the College at Colorado College.

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This collection features over a hundred essays and reviews by Oakeshott, spanning from 1926 to 1951, previously unpublished in one volume. A new editorial introduction highlights the significance of these works, particularly a lengthy essay on jurisprudence, which is central to Oakeshott's philosophy. The anthology contextualizes his thought by engaging with prominent figures in the humanities and social sciences, such as Leo Strauss and A.N. Whitehead, thereby enriching the understanding of his intellectual landscape.

Michael Oakeshott's classic discussion of modality and human experience in relation to the practical, the historical and the scientific modes of understanding is presented in a new series livery with a specially commissioned preface, written by Paul Franco, for twenty-first-century readers, in recognition of its enduring importance.

The sixth volume in the series Michael Oakeshott: Selected Writings. From the 1920s to the 1980s Oakeshott filled dozens of notebooks with his private reflections, both personal and intellectual. Their contents range from aphorisms to miniature essays, forming a unique record of his intellectual trajectory over his entire career.

Oakeshottovo dílo je pojímáno jako zásadní příspěvek do konzervativní tradice. Vybrané eseje ho ukazují jako myslitele, který promýšlí otázky, jako jsou podstata politična, lidské přirozenosti, racionality, vztahu mezi politikou a hodnotami, času a historie, aj. Nabízený svazek, z velké části výběr z jeho poválečných článků, které vyšly v roce 1962 pod titulem Rationalism in Politics and Other Essays, podává obraz jeho politického myšlení.