Intro; Series Editors' Preface; Acknowledgments; Contents; Chapter 1: Introduction; The Structure of This Study; Chapter 2: Political Moderation and Practical Conservatism; Amid the Intransigent; In the Vocabulary of Modern European Politics; The German Character; Progressivism and Liberalism; Chapter 3: Liberal Education and Classical Republicanism; Heidegger with the Soul of Churchill; Mankind as Learning and Conversation; The Mixed Regime; Res publica; Chapter 4: Historical Interpretation and Philosophical Intention; A Young Jew Born and Raised in Germany
Socrates over ZarathustraHeidegger and the Ground of Grounds; Chapter 9: Michael Oakeshott and Augustinianism After Hobbes and Hegel; Civil Association; Athens and Jerusalem; Hobbes and Hegel; The City of God; Chapter 10: Conclusion; References; Index
The Historical Element in ChristianityLegends and Intentions; Contemplation and the State of Nature; Chapter 5: The Philosophical Intention and Legacy of Hobbes; The Moral-Anthropological Question; The Moral Foundation; One of the Last Schoolmen; The Moralization of Pride; Chapter 6: Leo Strauss and Alexandre Kojève on Tyranny and Theory; The City in Motion; Chapter 7: Michael Oakeshott and Alexandre Kojève on Play and Practice; The Limits of Aestheticism; The Limits of Snobbery; Poetry in Politics; Religious Reconciliation; Chapter 8: Leo Strauss and Socratism After Nietzsche and Heidegger
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This book compares the thought of Michael Oakeshott and Leo Strauss, bringing Oakeshott's desire for a renaissance of poetic individuality into dialogue with Strauss's recovery of the universality of philosophical enlightenment. Starting from the conventional understanding of these thinkers as important voices of twentieth-century conservatism, McIlwain traces their deeper and more radical commitments to the highpoints of human achievement and their shared concerns with the fate of traditional inheritances in modernity, the role and meaning of history, the intention and meaning of political philosophy, and the problem of politics and religion. The book culminates in an articulation of the positions of Oakeshott and Strauss as part of the quarrel of poetry and philosophy, revealing the ongoing implications of their thinking in terms of the profound spiritual and political questions raised by modern thinkers such as Hobbes, Hegel, Nietzsche and Heidegger and leading back to foundational figures of Western civilization including St. Augustine and Socrates.
Michael Oakeshott and Leo Strauss.
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Oakeshott, Michael,1901-1990-- Criticism and interpretation.