Cover -- Contents -- Front matter -- Title page -- Publisher information -- List of Contributors -- List of Abbreviations -- Epigraph -- Foreword -- Body matter -- Part I: Religion -- 1. Skepticism and Tradition: The Religious Imagination of Michael Oakeshott -- 2. Oakeshott's Wise Defense: Christianity as a Civilization -- 3. Language and the Conservation of the Religious Disposition -- 4. Religion and Art: Modal Formalism and Political Antinomies -- Part II: History -- 5. What is Political Thought? The Example of Law in Greece and Rome in Oakeshott's London School of Economics Letters -- 6. A Conservative Concept of Freedom: Otto von Gierke's 'Genossenschaftslehre' and Oakeshott's Philosophy of Practice -- 7. Geography Cannot Replace History -- Part III: Currents in Philosophy -- 8. The Relation of Philosophy to Conservatism in the Thought of Michael Oakeshott -- 9. Conservatism, Romanticism, and the Understanding of Modernity -- 10. Ryle and Oakeshott on the 'Knowing-How/Knowing-That' Distinction -- 11. Conversation, Conversion and Conservation: Oakeshott, Arendt and a Little Bit of Cavell -- 12. Richard Rorty, Michael Oakeshott and the Impossibility of Liberalism Without Tradition -- 13. The Conservative Disposition and the Precautionary Principle -- Part IV: On Being Conservative -- 14. Being English: The Conservative Witness of Michael Oakeshott -- 15. A Brief Enchantment: The Role of Conversation and Poetry in Human Life -- 16. One Hand Clapping: The Reception of Oakeshott's Work by American Conservatives -- 17. Conservatives' Paradox in Post-Communism -- 18. 'A Dark Age Devoted to Barbaric Affluence': Oakeshott's Verdict on the Modern World -- Back matter -- Index -- Also available.