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1 online resource (392 pages). |
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Michael Oakeshott Selected Writings, 4
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Michael Oakeshott Selected Writings ; 4.
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| Contents |
Cover; Contents; Front Matter; Title Page; Publisher Information; Preface; Body Matter; Introduction; A Reminder from Leviathan; The Ethics of Redistribution; Two Cheers for Democracy; An Introduction to Philosophy of History; Liberty or Equality; The Problem of Power; The Liberal Anglican Idea of History; Freedom: A New Analysis; The Vocabulary of Politics; The Letters of Jacob Burckhardt; Anarchy and Order; Politics and Opinion in the Nineteenth Century; Political Parties; The Conservative Mind; Memoirs of Dr Eduard Beneš; The Hungry Sheep; Reason and Revolution. |
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The Concept of Government in Modern EuropeGovernment by Committee; Man on His Past; Uncommon People; History in a Changing World; Conservatism in America; Studies in Communication; Minos or Minotaur?; Mazzini; The Chatham Administration, 1766-1768; Sovereignty; The English Woman in History; The Political Philosophy of Thomas Hobbes; The Study of Comparative Government and Politics; Marxism and the Open Mind; George III and the Historians; The Opium of the Intellectuals; Documents of Modern Political Thought; Personal Knowledge; Realism and Imagination; Political Discipline in a Free Society. |
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The Story of Fabian SocialismTwo Treatises of Government; Montesquieu; Political Laws and Captive Audiences; The Essentials of Parliamentary Democracy; Rationalism in Politics: A Reply to Professor Raphael; The Conservative Opportunity; Philosophy, Politics and Society; Magna Charta; The Works of Joseph de Maistre; Coleridge and the Idea of the Modern State; Nazism; Hobbes Studies; The Principles of Politics; Sovereignty; William of Wykeham; The Aims of History; Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Right; Hegel's Theory of the Modern State; The Vocabulary of a Modern European State. |
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On Misunderstanding Human ConductConservative Essays; In Search of the Constitution; The Foundations of Modern Political Thought; Preface to 'The Form of Ideology'; Conservative Thoughts and Conservative Thinkers; Back Matter; Also Available. |
| Summary |
The Vocabulary of a Modern European State is the companion volume to The Concept of a Philosophical Jurisprudence and completes the enterprise of gathering together Oakeshott's previously scattered essays and reviews. As with all the other volumes in the series it contains an entirely new editorial introduction explaining how the writings it contains find their place in his work as a whole. It covers the years 1952 to 1988, the period during which Oakeshott wrote his definitive work, On Huma ... |
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Political science -- Philosophy.
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Political science -- Philosophy. |
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Europe -- Politics and government.
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Europe. |
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Politics and government. |
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Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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Print version: Oakeshott, Michael. Vocabulary of a Modern European State : Essays and Reviews 1953-1988. Luton : Andrews UK, ©2011 9781845400316 |
| ISBN |
9781845402266 (electronic book) |
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184540226X (electronic book) |
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