Michael Oakeshott on religion, aesthetics, and politics

"Argues that Oakeshott's views on aesthetics, religion, and morality, which she places in the Augustinian tradition, are intimately linked to a creative moral personality that underlies his political theorizing. Also compares Oakeshott's Rationalism to Voegelin's concept of Gnost...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Corey, Elizabeth Campbell, 1972-
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Columbia : University of Missouri Press, c2006.
Series:Eric Voegelin Institute series in political philosophy.
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Online Access:An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Oakeshott and Augustine on the human condition
  • Future, past, and present
  • Oakeshott's religious thought
  • Oakeshott's aesthetics
  • The Tower of Babel and the moral life
  • Rationalism and the politics of faith
  • Skeptical politics and civil association
  • Rationalism and gnosticism: Oakeshott and Voegelin
  • Conclusion.