Oakeshott's Skepticism, Politics, and Aesthetics

1. Introduction. 2. Under the Law of Ruin: Practice, Aesthetics, and the Civil Association.
3. Michael Oakeshott Philosopher of Skepticism: Conservative or Liberal?.
4. Out of Rationalist Politics' Crises: Popper and Oakeshott.5. A Conservative Landscape: From A Guide to the Classics to the "Claims of Politics".6. The Art of the Scholar: Oakeshott's Conservative Account of Liberal Learning.7. The Understanding of Rationalism in C.S. Lewis and Michael Oakeshott: Tradition, Experience, and the Reading of Old Books.8. Oakeshott, Strauss and the Romans.9. Authority: Fragments of the Good Regime.10. 'That spirit of quiet': Oakeshott, Keats and Sontag Towards a Philosophy of Silence.11. Oakeshott's Theory of Poetry: A Corrective from Seamus Heaney.12. The Problem of a Pure Theory of Poetry.13. What can Contemporary Realists Learn from Montaigne? On the Significance of the Author of the Essais for Michael Oakeshott and Raymond Geuss

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3030830578
• ISBN13: 9783030830571
• Release Date: December 2022
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 222 Pages
• Weight: 0.63 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.8" x 8.3"