Michael Oakeshott on Authority, Governance, and the State

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Kos, Eric S. (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: Palgrave Studies in Classical Liberalism,
• Subjects: Economic history.; Political theory.; Political philosophy.; World politics.; History of Economic Thought/Methodology.; Political Theory.; Political Philosophy.; Political History.

Michael Oakeshott on Authority, Governance, and the State presents contributions on one of the most important British philosophers of the 20th century. These essays address unique and under-analyzed areas in the literature on Oakeshott: authority, governance, and the state. They draw on some of the...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Introduction
• 2. The State is the Attempt to Strip Metaphor out of Politics
• 3. The Problem of Liberal Political Legitimacy
• 4. Oakeshott on the State: Between History and Philosophy
• 5. Taking Natural Law Seriously within the Liberal Tradition
• 6. The Authority of the State and the Traditional Realm of Freedom
• 7. Anarchic and Antinomian? Oakeshott and the Cambridge School on History, Philosophy, and Authority
• 8. Michael Oakeshott's Political Realism
• 9. Government as a British Conservative Understands It: Comments on Oakeshott's Views on Government
• 10. Global Governance and the "Clandestine Revolution": From the Legal State to the Judicial State
• 11. Three Different Critiques of Rationalism: Friedrich Hayek, James Scott and Michael Oakeshott.