Contains four unpublished pieces and six previously published essays by Oakeshott. All the essays probe the meaning of words commonly, but often inappropriately, used in the discussion of political life. The works also reveal his religious outlook and the moral convictions that governed his life.

Product Description: Este libro analiza la emergencia de dos actitudes morales enEuropa -el individualismo y el colectivismo-, y sus respectivas concepciones del Estado. Oakeshott afirma que, en la moral y la política colectivista de la solidaridad, subyace el miedo a la libertad de ciertos individuos, que sienten ésta más como una carga que c...read more

Product Description: 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...read more

Product Description: 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...read more

Includes a long essay 'On the Relations of Philosophy, Poetry, and Reality', with Oakeshott's comments on 'The Cambridge School of Political Science'. This collection also reproduces a wartime essay 'On Peace with Germany', along with essays on the philosophy of education, such as 'What is History?'. It is intended for Oakeshott's readers.

Product Description: Michael Oakeshott es un pensador moderno de la filosofía política. Aquí se reúnen algunos de sus ensayos. Las ideas expuestas constituyen uno de los más avanzados sistemas de interpretación del mundo político, su relación con el individuo y sus límites dentro de la concepción y el significado de la vida humana...read more

Product Description: El texto recogido aquí implica una teoría del Estado, constituye un ensayo histórico, y puede ser entendido como una defensa cualificada del liberalismo. En él, Oakeshott analiza el carácter del Estado moderno europeo y su evolución desde la baja edad media hasta hoy como un híbrido entre dos tipos de asociación política...read more

Product Description: By 1989, when Michael Oakeshott’s Voice of Liberal Learning was first published by Yale University Press, books that held a negative view of education in the United States, such as Allan Bloom’s The Closing of the American Mind and E...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Tesis que sostiene a la práctica moderna de los estilos políticos como el resultado de un debate centenario iniciado en Europa en torno a la pregunta "¿Qué deben hacer los gobiernos?" Desde el siglo XV dos respuestas diferentes han dominado el pensamiento de los hombres en la escena política, representados por pensadores como Rousseau y Marx, por un lado, y por pensadores escépticos como Montaigne, Pascal, Halifax y Hume, como contraparte...read more

Product Description: What should governments do? Arguing that while some political thinkers have thought it proper for humans to control as far as possible, and others have argued for a free approach to government, this text suggests the most desirable form of government lies somewhere between these interpretations...read more

Product Description: When Michael Oakeshott died in 1990, he left much unpublished material, including fully elaborated essays and complete full-length manuscripts. This volume contains selected items from these works based on a series of eight lectures delivered in 1958.