Michael Oakeshott, Rationalism in Politics and Other Essays. London: Methuen, 1962.

“It is the breadth of Oakeshott’s critique of rationalism, the scope of his skepticism about the role of self-conscious ideals, principles, and purposes in politics, that in many ways distinguishes it from the critiques of his contemporaries.” Paul Franco, Bowdoin College

Contains the following essays:

PART ONE
“Reason and the Conduct of Political life”
“Rationalism in Politics”
“Political Education”
“Political Discourse”

PART TWO
“Dissecting Rationalism”
“Rational Conduct”
“The New Bentham”
“The Activity of Being an Historian”
“The Study of Politics in a University”

PART THREE
“On Hobbes”
“Introduction to Leviathan”
“The Moral Life in the Writings of Thomas Hobbes”
“Logos and Telos”

PART FOUR
“Reflections on Modern Politics”
“The Masses in Representative Democracy”
“The Political Economy of Freedom”
“On Being Conservative” (available free online here)
“Talking Politics”

PART FIVE
“On the Human Condition”
“The Tower of Babel”
“The Voice of Poetry in the Conversation of Mankind”

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