The Philosophy of Michael Oakshott is the best overview of its subject so far by a considerable distance, and deserves . Terry Nardin’s book provides the most extensive consideration of Oakeshott's philosophical endeavours to date.

The Philosophy of Michael Oakshott is the best overview of its subject so far by a considerable distance, and deserves to become the standard work wherever this unjustly neglected philosopher is studied. Luke O’Sullivan, History of Political Thought. The Philosophy of Michael Oakeshott is a significant contribution to scholarship on Oakeshott’s work.

It examines his arguments concerning the criteria of truth, the forms of knowledge, the relationship between theory and practice, the place of interpretation in the social sciences, the nature and importance of historical explanation, and the definition of philosophy itself.

Michael Joseph Oakeshott FBA (/ˈoʊkʃɒt/; 11 December 1901 – 19 December 1990) was an English philosopher and political theorist who wrote about philosophy of history, philosophy of religion, aesthetics.

Michael Joseph Oakeshott FBA (/ˈoʊkʃɒt/; 11 December 1901 – 19 December 1990) was an English philosopher and political theorist who wrote about philosophy of history, philosophy of religion, aesthetics, philosophy of education, and philosophy of law. Oakeshott was the son of Frances Maude (Hellicar) and Joseph Francis Oakeshott, a civil servant and a member of the Fabian Society. George Bernard Shaw was a friend. Michael Oakeshott attended St George's School, Harpenden, from 1912 to 1920.

That book gave, as Nardin recognizes, a rather misleading impression of Oakeshott’s interests

That book gave, as Nardin recognizes, a rather misleading impression of Oakeshott’s interests. In it, precision was all too frequently sacrificed to elegance, and many of the essays it contained, while still highly readable, reflected the polemical atmosphere of Britain in the forties and fifties too closely to make them enduring works of philosophy

The Philosophy of Michael Oakshott is the best overview of its subject so far by a considerable distance, and deserves .

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Michael Oakeshott (1901–1990) is commonly viewed as a conservative thinker and critic of government planning. His ideas spring not from practical engagement but from study of the history of European political thought, sharpened by philosophical reflection on its arguments and their presuppositions.

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