Book description
This volume brings together for the first time over a hundred of
Oakeshott s essays and reviews, written between 1926 and 1951, that
until now have remained scattered through a variety of scholarly
journals, periodicals and newspapers. A new editorial introduction
explains how these pieces, including the lengthy essay on the
philosophical nature of jurisprudence that occupies an important
position in Oakeshott s work, illuminate his other published writings.
The collection throws new light on the context of his thought by placing
him in dialogue with a number of other major figures in the humanities
and social sciences during this period, including Leo Strauss, A. N.
Whitehead, Karl Mannheim, Herbert Butterfield, E. H. Carr, Gilbert Ryle,
and R. G. Collingwood. This volume brings together for the first time
over a hundred of Oakeshott s essays and reviews, written between 1926
and 1951, that until now have remained scattered through a variety of
scholarly journals, periodicals and newspapers. A new editorial
introduction explains how these pieces, including the lengthy essay on
the philosophical nature of jurisprudence that occupies an important
position in Oakeshott s work, illuminate his other published writings.
The collection throws new light on the context of his thought by placing
him in dialogue with a number of other major figures in the humanities
and social sciences during this period, including Leo Strauss, A. N.
Whitehead, Karl Mannheim, Herbert Butterfield, E. H. Carr, Gilbert Ryle,
and R. G. Collingwood.
