دانلود کتاب Oakeshott’s Skepticism, Politics, and Aesthetics

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Acknowledgments
Contents
Notes on Contributors
Introduction
Under the Law of Ruin: Practice, Aesthetics, and the Civil Association
1 Practical Experience and Progress of the Sciences and Arts
2 Civil Association & Progress of the Sciences and Arts
3 Poets & Rulers in the Civil Association
4 Conclusion
Michael Oakeshott Philosopher of Skepticism: Conservative or Liberal?
1 I
2 II
3 III
Out of Rationalist Politics’ Crises: Popper and Oakeshott
1 Introduction
2 Two Fundamental Crises in Rationalist Politics
3 Popper’s Critical Rationalism
4 Oakeshott’s Pursuit of “Intimations in Tradition”
5 Piecemeal Social Engineering or Civil Association?
6 Conclusion
A Conservative Landscape: From A Guide to the Classics to the “Claims of Politics”
1 An Essay with a View or the Outline of a Political Landscape
2 A Guide to the Classics or a Day at the Races
3 A Guide to the Classics or the Claims of Politics
The Art of the Scholar: Oakeshott’s Conservative Account of Liberal Learning
1 Introduction
2 The Political Background of Oakeshott’s Stress on Practical Knowledge
3 Practical Knowledge in Science, Religion, Art and Cookery
4 The Art of the Scholar
5 Conservative Components of the Art of the Scholar
6 An Aesthetic Code
The Understanding of Rationalism in C.S. Lewis and Michael Oakeshott: Tradition, Experience, and the Reading of Old Books
1 Introduction
2 Comparing Lewis’s and Oakeshott’s View of Rationalism
3 Looking at/Looking Along
4 Politics of the Felt Need
5 Education
6 Social Engineering
7 The Genesis of the Lewis/Oakeshott Similarities, and the Genealogy of Their Differences
8 Conclusion
Oakeshott, Strauss and the Romans
1 Mcllwain on Greeks and the Romans
2 Strauss on McIlwain and the Romans
3 Oakeshott on the Romans
4 Cicero on the Romans
5 Conclusion: Conjectures on the Reasons for the Straussian Silence Concerning the Romans
Authority: Fragments of the Good Regime
1 Good order and political episteme
2 The quadriga of good order
3 Authority instead of epistemology
4 Authority as conservative panacea
‘That Spirit of Quiet’: Oakeshott, Keats and Sontag Towards a Philosophy of Silence
1 The Rudiments of an Aesthetic Silence: Negative Capability
2 The Rudiments of an Aesthetic Silence: Listening for Conversation
3 The Rudiments of an Aesthetic Silence: The Via Negativa
4 Sontag on Styles of Silence
5 Conclusion
Oakeshott’s Theory of Poetry: A Corrective from Seamus Heaney
1 Introduction
2 Oakeshott’s Aesthetic Continence
3 Understanding Poetry: What We Can Learn from Heaney
4 Contextualization
5 Negotiating a Divided Society
6 Poetry and Truth
7 Tell All the Truth But Tell It Slant
8 Conclusion: Poetry, Truth and Didacticism
The Problem of a Pure Theory of Poetry
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What Can Contemporary Realists Learn from Montaigne? On the Significance of the Author of the Essais for Michael Oakeshott and Raymond Geuss
1 Introduction
2 Oakeshott’s Montaigne
3 Geuss’s Montaigne
4 Conclusion
Index