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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Autore principale: Plotica, Luke Philip, 1980-
Natura: Licensed eBooks
Lingua:inglese
Pubblicazione: Albany : State University of New York Press, 2015.
Accesso online:https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=958874
Sommario:
  • 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.