Book description
The Vocabulary of a Modern European State is the companion volume to
The Concept of a Philosophical Jurisprudence and completes the
enterprise of gathering together Oakeshott s previously scattered essays
and reviews. As with all the other volumes in the series it contains an
entirely new editorial introduction explaining how the writings it
contains find their place in his work as a whole. It covers the years
1952 to 1988, the period during which Oakeshott wrote his definitive
work, On Human Conduct. The essay from which the volume takes its title
was intended as a companion piece to the third part of the latter work,
and is just one of over sixty pieces that it includes. The volume draws
together critical responses to works by major philosophers, historians,
and political theorists of his own generation such as Bertrand de
Jouvenel, Herbert Marcuse, and Michael Polanyi as well as to some major
figures of current scholarship such as Quentin Skinner and Roger
Scruton. The Vocabulary of a Modern European State is the companion
volume to The Concept of a Philosophical Jurisprudence and completes the
enterprise of gathering together Oakeshott s previously scattered essays
and reviews. As with all the other volumes in the series it contains an
entirely new editorial introduction explaining how the writings it
contains find their place in his work as a whole. It covers the years
1952 to 1988, the period during which Oakeshott wrote his definitive
work, On Human Conduct. The essay from which the volume takes its title
was intended as a companion piece to the third part of the latter work,
and is just one of over sixty pieces that it includes. The volume draws
together critical responses to works by major philosophers, historians,
and political theorists of his own generation such as Bertrand de
Jouvenel, Herbert Marcuse, and Michael Polanyi as well as to some major
figures of current scholarship such as Quentin Skinner and Roger
Scruton.
