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What Is History? : and Other Essays.
Title:
What Is History? : and Other Essays.
Author:
Oakeshott, Michael.
ISBN:
9781845403034
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Edition:
1st ed.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (468 pages)
Series:
Michael Oakeshott Selected Writings, 2 ; v.2

Michael Oakeshott Selected Writings, 2
Contents:
Cover -- Contents -- Front Matter -- Title Page -- Publisher Information -- Preface -- Introduction -- Body Matter -- History is a Fable -- The Cambridge School of Political Science -- An Essay on the Relations of Philosophy, Poetry and Reality -- The Philosophy of History -- What Do We Look for in an Historian? -- The Social and Political Doctrines of Contemporary Europe -- On Peace with Germany -- The Voice of Conversation in the Education of Mankind -- The Philosophy of History -- Richard Hooker -- The Whig Interpretation of History -- The New Society -- The New Science of Politics -- Freedom and Power -- Conduct and Ideology in Politics -- The Idea of 'Character' in the Interpretation of Modern Politics -- Democracy in England -- Current Ideas about Government -- The Constitution of Liberty -- Work and Play -- Between Past and Future -- What is History? -- On Arriving at a University -- The Historiography of Max Lenz -- The Emergence of the History of Thought -- The Character of a University Education -- What is Political Theory? -- Political Thought as a Subject of Historical Enquiry -- Law -- Europe, the Emergence of an Idea -- Back Matter -- Also Available.
Abstract:
This highly readable new collection of thirty pieces by Michael Oakeshott, almost all of which are previously unpublished, covers every decade of his intellectual career, and adds significantly to his contributions to the philosophy of historical understanding and political philosophy, as well as to the philosophy of education and aesthetics. The essays were intended mostly for lectures or seminars, and are consequently in an informal style that will be accessible to new readers as well as t...
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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