Michael Oakeshott and the conversation of modern political thought /

One of the seminal voices of twentieth-century political thought, Michael Oakeshott's work has often fallen prey to the ideological labels applied to it by his interpreters and commentators. In this book, Luke Philip Plotica argues that we stand to learn more by embracing Oakeshott's own u...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Plotica, Luke Philip, 1980-
Format: Licensed eBooks
Language:English
Published: Albany : State University of New York Press, 2015.
Online Access:https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=958874
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : situating oakeshott
  • Language, practice, and individual agency
  • Individuality between tradition and contingency
  • Imagining the modern state
  • Towards a conversational democratic ethos
  • Conclusion : hearing voices.