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