Michael Oakeshott and Leo Strauss The Politics of Renaissance and Enlightenment /

• Main Author: McIlwain, David (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: Recovering Political Philosophy,
• Subjects: Political theory.; Political philosophy.; Religion and politics.; Political Theory.; Political Philosophy.; Politics and Religion.

This book compares the thought of Michael Oakeshott and Leo Strauss, bringing Oakeshott's desire for a renaissance of poetic individuality into dialogue with Strauss's recovery of the universality of philosophical enlightenment. Starting from the conventional understanding of these thinker...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Introduction
• 2. Political Moderation and Practical Conservatism
• 3. Liberal Education and Classical Republicanism
• 4. Historical Interpretation and Philosophical Intention
• 5. The Philosophical Intention and Legacy of Hobbes
• 6. Leo Strauss and Alexandre Kojève on Tyranny and Theory
• 7. Michael Oakeshott and Alexandre Kojève on Play and Practice
• 8. Leo Strauss and Socratism after Heidegger
• 9. Michael Oakeshott and Augustinianism after Hobbes
• 10. Conclusion.