Contents
Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations
Introduction
Paul Franco and Leslie Marsh
1 The Pursuit of Intimacy, or Rationalism in Love
Robert Grant
Part One: The Conversation of Mankind
2 The Victim of Thought: The Idealist Inheritance
David Boucher
3 Philosophy and Its Moods: Oakeshott on the Practice of Philosophy
Kenneth McIntyre
4 Michael Oakeshott’s Philosophy of History
Geoffrey Thomas
5 Radical Temporality and the Modern Moral Imagination: Two Themes in the Thought of Michael Oakeshott
Timothy Fuller
6 The Religious Sensibility of Michael Oakeshott
Elizabeth Corey
7 Whatever It Turns Out to Be: Oakeshott on Aesthetic Experience
Corey Abel
8 Un Début dans la Vie Humaine: Michael Oakeshott on Education
Paul Franco
Part Two: Political Philosophy
9 Michael Oakeshott on the History of Political Thought
Martyn Thompson
10 Oakeshott and Hobbes
Noel Malcolm
11 The Fate of Rationalism in Oakeshott’s Thought
Kenneth Minogue
12 Oakeshott and Hayek: Situating the Mind
Leslie Marsh
13 Oakeshott as Conservative
Robert Devigne
14 Oakeshott on Civil Association
Noël O’Sullivan
15 Oakeshott on Law
Steven Gerencser
Notes on Contributors
Index