The Philosophy of Michael Oakeshott
Publisher: Pennsylvania State University Press
Published: November 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 264
ISBN-13: 9780271021560
Subjects: Western philosophy, from c 1900 -; Philosophy; History & Surveys - Modern; Criticism; 1901-; 1901-1990; Oakeshott, Michael Joseph,; Oakeshott, Michael,
Description: "This is the first comprehensive study of Michael Oakeshott as a philosopher rather than a political theorist, which is how most commentators have regarded him. Indeed, the careful reading of his published and unpublished writings that Terry Nardin provides here shows that Oakeshott's concerns have been primarily philosophical, not political. These writings go far beyond politics to offer a critical philosophy of human activity and of the disciplines that interpret and explain it.

Oakeshott argues that inquiry can be independent of practical concerns, even when its subject is the thought and action of human beings."--BOOK JACKET.