Rationalism In Politics And Other Essays
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Rationalism in Politics and Other Essays
Author | : Michael Oakeshott |
Publsiher | : Liberty Fund |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0865970947 |
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Rationalism in Politics 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 and criticizes ideological schemes to reform society according to supposedly "scientific" or rationalistic principles that ignore the wealth and variety of human experience. Timothy Fuller is Professor of Political Science at Colorado College.
Rationalism in Politics and Other Essays
Author | : Michael Oakeshott |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 592 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : UCR:31210009510627 |
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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."
The Voice of Poetry in the Conversation of Mankind
Author | : Michael Oakeshott |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 72 |
Release | : 1959 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : UOM:39015005754224 |
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What Was History
Author | : Anthony Grafton |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 328 |
Release | : 2012-03-29 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9781107394599 |
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From the late fifteenth century onwards, scholars across Europe began to write books about how to read and evaluate histories. These pioneering works grew from complex early modern debates about law, religion and classical scholarship. Anthony Grafton's book is based on his Trevelyan Lectures of 2005, and it proves to be a powerful and imaginative exploration of some central themes in the history of European ideas. Grafton explains why so many of these works were written, why they attained so much insight – and why, in the centuries that followed, most scholars gradually forgot that they had existed. Elegant and accessible, What Was History? is a deliberate evocation of E. H. Carr's celebrated Trevelyan Lectures, What Is History?.
Conservatism
Author | : Jerry Z. Muller |
Publsiher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 476 |
Release | : 1997-05-04 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0691037116 |
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History Professor Jerry Muller locates the origins of modern conservatism within the Enlightenment and distinguishes conservatism from orthodoxy. Reviewing important specimens of analysis from the mid18th century through our own day, Muller demonstrates that characteristic features of conservative argument recur over time and across national borders.
Experience and its Modes
Author | : Michael Oakeshott |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 289 |
Release | : 2015-10-15 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9781107113589 |
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This book is Michael Oakeshott's discussion of the relationships between the most important perspectives from which we experience the world.
The Politics of Faith and the Politics of Scepticism
Author | : Michael Oakeshott |
Publsiher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 166 |
Release | : 1996-01-01 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0300105339 |
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Michael Oakeshott, the foremost British political philosopher of the twentieth century, died in 1990, leaving a substantial collection of unpublished material. Yale University Press is continuing to make available the best of these illuminating works. In this polished and hitherto unknown work, Oakeshott argues that modern politics was constituted out of a debate, persistent through centuries of European political experience down to our own day, over the question "What should governments do?" According to Oakeshott, two different answers have dominated our thought since the fifteenth century. One, exemplified by such thinkers as Rousseau and Marx, expresses a belief in the capacity of human beings to control, design, and monitor all aspects of social and political life, a belief fostered by the intoxicating increase in power available to governments in modern times. On the other hand, sceptics such as Montaigne, Pascal, and Hobbes argued that governments cannot, in principle, produce perfection and that we should prevent concentrations of power that may result in tyrannies that oppress the dignity of the human spirit. Oakeshott exposes the pitfalls of both positions and shows the value of a middle ground that incorporates scepticism with enough faith to avoid total quietism. Readers of Oakeshott will find here the thinking that lies behind his famous definition of politics as "the pursuit of intimations.".
The Cambridge Companion to Oakeshott
Author | : Efraim Podoksik |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 387 |
Release | : 2012-06-07 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780521147927 |
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A systematic and accessible presentation of the ideas of one of the leading British philosophers of the twentieth century.