Michael Oakeshott's Cold War liberalism
By: edited by Terry Nardin
Contributors: Neill, Edmund
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2015
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 197
ISBN-13: 9781137513267; 9781137507013; 9781137507020
Subjects: Liberalism; Philosophy; Cold War
Description: "During the Cold War, political thinkers in the West debated the balance between the requirements of liberal democracy and national security. This debate is relevant to East Asia and especially to Korea, where an ideological-military standoff between a democracy and a totalitarian system persists. The thinkers often identified as "Cold War liberals"--Isaiah Berlin, Karl Popper, Raymond Aron, Friedrich Hayek, and Michael Oakeshott--are worth revisiting in this context. Of these, Oakeshott is the least well understood in East Asia and therefore particularly deserving of attention. His ideas about the limits of rationalism in politics, the irrelevance of conventional views of liberalism and conservatism, how constitutional democracy should be defined, and how it can be defended against various forms of anti-liberal politics are especially valuable. In this book, leading Oakeshott scholars from around the world explore these ideas and their implications for East Asia in ten illuminating and readable essays"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Michael Oakeshott : neither liberal nor conservative / Terry Nardin; title: Oakeshott, modernity, and Cold War liberalism / Edmund Neill; title: Conserving the university as a place for liberal learning / Erika A. Kiss; title: Oakeshott and totalitarianism / Andrew Gamble; title: Rule of law or city of Babel : Oakeshott on the twentieth-century state / Cheung Chor-yung; title: An association for amiable adventurers : on Oakeshott's peculiar constitutionalism / Jan-Werner Müller; title: Oakeshott in China / Zhang Rulun; title: Michael Oakeshott and Confucian constitutionalism / Kim Sungmoon; title: Some implications of Oakeshott's thought for contemporary Korean society and politics / Kim Bi Hwan.