The Vocabulary of a Modern European State
Oct 2011 · Michael Oakeshott Selected Writings Book 4 · Andrews UK Limited
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The Vocabulary of a Modern European State is the companion volume to The Concept of a Philosophical Jurisprudence and completes the enterprise of gathering together Oakeshott's previously scattered essays and reviews. As with all the other volumes in the series it contains an entirely new editorial introduction explaining how the writings it contains find their place in his work as a whole. It covers the years 1952 to 1988, the period during which Oakeshott wrote his definitive work, On Human Conduct. The essay from which the volume takes its title was intended as a companion piece to the third part of the latter work, and is just one of over sixty pieces that it includes. The volume draws together critical responses to works by major philosophers, historians, and political theorists of his own generation such as Bertrand de Jouvenel, Herbert Marcuse, and Michael Polanyi as well as to some major figures of current scholarship such as Quentin Skinner and Roger Scruton.
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Michael Oakeshott (1901-90) was an historian and philosopher in the tradition of the British Idealists. He spent the inter-war years at Cambridge, first as a student and then as a fellow, and after military service in the 1940s he briefly moved to Oxford before being appointed professor of political science at the London School of Economics, a post he held for two decades until his retirement in 1969. He was one of the foremost conservative thinkers of the twentieth century.
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