The Meanings of Michael Oakeshott's Conservatism (British Idealist Studies, Series 1: Oakeshott) - Softcover

"Showing the incredible richness of Oakeshott's thought, as well as the high degree of sophisitication of the studies devoted to it, the contributions of this volume offer a web of methodological and interpretative perspectives...As Corey Abel points out in his clear introduction, the book presents the heterogeneity of meanings of Oakehott's conservatism.This variegated portrait shows, once more, its anti-doctrinaire and abti-dogmatic character that cannot be eaily placed on the Lef/Right spectrum."

This collection of recent scholarship on the thought of Michael Oakeshott includes essays by both distinguished and established authors as well as a fresh crop of younger talent. Together, they address the meanings of Oakeshott's conservatism through the lenses of his ideas on religion, history, and tradition, and explore his relationships to philosophers ranging from Hume to Ryle, Cavell, and others. The collection assigns no single or final meaning to Oakeshott's conservatism, but finds in him a number of possibilities for thinking fruitfully about what conservatism might mean, when it is no longer considered as a doctrine, but as a habit or a turn of mind.