A Companion to Michael Oakeshott

Table of Contents

contents Acknowledgments / ix List of Abbreviations / xi Introduction / 1 Paul Franco and Leslie Marsh 1. The Pursuit of Intimacy, or Rationalism in Love / 15 Robert Grant part one: the conversation of mankind 2. The Victim of Thought: The Idealist Inheritance / 47 David Boucher 3. Philosophy and Its Moods: Oakeshott on the Practice of Philosophy / 70 Kenneth McIntyre 4. Michael Oakeshott’s Philosophy of History / 95 Geoffrey Thomas 5. Radical Temporality and the Modern Moral Imagination: Two Themes in the Thought of Michael Oakeshott / 120 Timothy Fuller 6. The Religious Sensibility of Michael Oakeshott / 134 Elizabeth Corey 7. Whatever It Turns Out to Be: Oakeshott on Aesthetic Experience / 151 Corey Abel 8. Un Début dans la Vie Humaine: Michael Oakeshott on Education / 173 Paul Franco part two: political philosophy 9. Michael Oakeshott on the History of Political Thought / 197 Martyn Thompson viii contents 10. Oakeshott and Hobbes / 217 Noel Malcolm 11. The Fate of Rationalism in Oakeshott’s Thought / 232 Kenneth Minogue 12. Oakeshott and Hayek: Situating the Mind / 248 Leslie Marsh 13. Oakeshott as Conservative / 268 Robert Devigne 14. Oakeshott on Civil Association / 290 Noël O’Sullivan 15. Oakeshott on Law / 312 Steven Gerencser Notes on Contributors / 337 Index / 341 ...