Book description
Oakeshott s memorable lectures on the history of political thought,
delivered each year at the London School of Economics, will now be
available in print for the first time as Volume II of his Selected
Writings. Based on manuscripts in the LSE archive for 1966 67, the last
year of Oakeshott s tenure as Professor of Political Science, these
thirty lectures deal with Greek, Roman, mediaeval, and modern European
political thought in a uniquely accessible manner. Scholars familiar
with Oakeshott s work will recognize his own ideas subtly blended with
an exposition carefully crafted for an undergraduate audience; those
discovering Oakeshott for the first time will find an account of the
subject that remains illuminating and provocative. Oakeshott s
memorable lectures on the history of political thought, delivered each
year at the London School of Economics, will now be available in print
for the first time as Volume II of his Selected Writings. Based on
manuscripts in the LSE archive for 1966 67, the last year of Oakeshott s
tenure as Professor of Political Science, these thirty lectures deal
with Greek, Roman, mediaeval, and modern European political thought in a
uniquely accessible manner. Scholars familiar with Oakeshott s work will
recognize his own ideas subtly blended with an exposition carefully
crafted for an undergraduate audience; those discovering Oakeshott for
the first time will find an account of the subject that remains
illuminating and provocative.
