Michael Oakeshott on Authority, Governance, and the State presents contributions on one of the most important British philosophers of the 20th century. These essays address unique and under-analyzed areas in the literature on Oakeshott: authority, governance, and the state. They draw on some of the earliest and least-explored works of Oakeshott, including his lectures at Cambridge and the London School of Economics and difficult-to-access essays and manuscripts. The essays are authored by a diverse set of emerging and established scholars from Europe, North America, and India. This authorial diversity is not only a testimony to the growing international interest in Oakeshott, but also to a plurality of perspectives and important new insights into the thought of Michael Oakeshott.

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Eric S. Kos is Associate Professor of Political Science at Siena Heights University, USA.

Zusammenfassung

Michael Oakeshott on Authority, Governance, and the State presents contributions on one of the most important British philosophers of the 20th century. These essays address unique and under-analyzed areas in the literature on Oakeshott: authority, governance, and the state. They draw on some of the earliest and least-explored works of Oakeshott, including his lectures at Cambridge and the London School of Economics and difficult-to-access essays and manuscripts. The essays are authored by a diverse set of emerging and established scholars from Europe, North America, and India. This authorial diversity is not only a testimony to the growing international interest in Oakeshott, but also to a plurality of perspectives and important new insights into the thought of Michael Oakeshott.

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Contents

1. Chapter 1 Introduction/Eric S. Kos

2. Chapter 2 The State is the Attempt to Strip Metaphor out of Politics/James Alexander

3. Chapter 3 The Problem of Liberal Political Legitimacy/David D. Corey

4. Chapter 4 Oakeshott on the State: Between History and Philosophy/Gary Browning

5. Chapter 5 Taking Natural Law Seriously within the Liberal Tradition/Timothy Fuller

6. Chapter 6 The Authority of the State and the Traditional Realm of Freedom/Carlos Marques de Almeida

7. Chapter 7 Anarchic and Antinomian? Oakeshott and the Cambridge School on History, Philosophy, and Authority/Jordan Rudinsky

8. Chapter 8 Michael Oakeshott's Political Realism /Gulsen Seven

9. Chapter 9 Government as a British Conservative Understands It: Comments on Oakeshott's Views on Government/Ferenc Hörcher

10. Chapter 10 Global Governance and the Clandestine Revolution: From the Legal State to the Judicial State/Agostino Carrino

11. Chapter 11 Three Different Critiques of Rationalism: Friedrich Hayek, James Scott and Michael Oakeshott/Shekhar Singh