Michael Oakeshott As a Philosopher of the "Creative": And Other Essays - Couverture rigide

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Coats Jr. Jr., Wendell John

 
9781845409937: Michael Oakeshott As a Philosopher of the "Creative": And Other Essays
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ISBN 10 : 1845409930 ISBN 13 : 9781845409937
Editeur : Imprint Academic, 2019

Synopsis

This book is a collection of eight (mostly) recent essays on the work of the twentieth-century English philosophic essayist, Michael Oakeshott. Six of them advance the view in different ways that Oakeshott's multifarious lifework may be understood as variations on a singular insight -- that the structure of experiential reality is 'creative' or 'poetic', with the form and content (the how and what) of thought and activity occurring simultaneously and conditioning one another reciprocally; and that this experiential structure has specifiable cultural, political and legal ramifications. In advancing and illustrating this viewpoint, comparisons and contrasts are drawn with medieval nominalism, philosophic idealism, Cartesianism, modernity, post-modernism, Chinese Daoism and with the views of thinkers such as Sir Henry Maine, Charles McIlwain, M.B. Foster, Leo Strauss, A.C. Graham, Friedrich Hayek, Efraim Podoksik, John Liddington, and others. Included also is an essay on the educational views of Oakeshott and A.N. Whitehead, and another on Oakeshott, Max Weber and Carl Schmitt and the relationship between politics and armed force. A very brief concluding postscript asserts the continued relevance (as a corrective) of Oakeshott's views on the creative structure of human experience in an age of 'artificial intelligence' (AI).

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À propos de l'auteur

Wendell John Coats, Jr. is Professor of Government at Connecticut College, New London, Connecticut, where he teaches courses in political theory -- ancient, medieval and modern. He is widely published in the field of political theory, especially with regard to the thought of Michael Oakeshott.

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Éditeur
Imprint Academic
Date d'édition
2019
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1845409930
ISBN 13 
9781845409937
Reliure
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Nombre de pages
140
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