The Concept of a Philosophical Jurisprudence: Essays and Reviews 1926–51
Oct 2011 · Michael Oakeshott Selected Writings Book 3 · Andrews UK Limited
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This volume brings together for the first time over a hundred of Oakeshott's essays and reviews, written between 1926 and 1951, that until now have remained scattered through a variety of scholarly journals, periodicals and newspapers. A new editorial introduction explains how these pieces, including the lengthy essay on the philosophical nature of jurisprudence that occupies an important position in Oakeshott's work, illuminate his other published writings. The collection throws new light on the context of his thought by placing him in dialogue with a number of other major figures in the humanities and social sciences during this period, including Leo Strauss, A.N. Whitehead, Karl Mannheim, Herbert Butterfield, E.H. Carr, Gilbert Ryle, and R.G. Collingwood.
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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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